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Theo Farrant

The Herds: Life-sized animal puppets complete epic 20,000km climate crisis journey

Back in April, a herd of towering, life-sized animal puppets - from elephants, giraffes, to antelopes and lions - set out from Kinshasa, in the Congo rainforest, on a hugely ambitious journey that would take them across two continents and 20,000km.

Their migration - fictional but steeped in reality - was designed to mirror the flight of animals and people escaping the growing effects of climate disaster and to bring the climate crisis into public spaces in a way that was emotionally visceral, not abstract.

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