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ADVANCE PRAISE

“The world needs this film. Among its many strengths is the way the diverse people tell their stories of their work, their park, the mining, the border areas and animal movements, all of it without “authoritative” voice-over. Partial healing of the land and its human and more-than-human people, drastic terraforming and the capacity to find and care for the park’s partial and fragile beauty, ecotourism in all its ambiguities and potential, carefully situated sense of place and history—amazing. The commitment and emotion of the rangers are palpable. The filming is super.”

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

“Moving, insightful and confronting. If you care about conservation and people in Africa, watch this film.”

Bram Buscher, The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene (with Robert Fletscher)

“Overburden refers both to the waste scraped away for profit by mining companies and to the weight that remains when life disappears. Framed within the Anthropocene, this richly layered film offers a window into a fragile world in the West African tropics. Its stories of unfolding conflict—between extraction and conservation, and between humans and the more-than-human world—pose the question of whether nature can heal itself. Quietly beautiful and ethically urgent, this awareness-raising documentary offers a glimpse into possible futures and the very health of planet earth.”

Christof Mauch, Wie der Mensch die Erde verändert (With Bernhard Lang)