Colleen Begg

Personally, it is home to me and my heart aches. It is breathtakingly beautiful and fragile. This hurts all who live there. One way to honour our scouts who have lost their lives is to wrestle it back to peace for everyone.

We need to keep our focus on what is happening. An entrenched war will destabilize the province, the country, the region.https://niassalion.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/NCP-Mariri-Press-Release-3-May-2025-FINAL-ENG.pdf

1 month since IS -Mozambique attacks started in Niassa Special Reserve. Still very insecure. All the gains over the past 20 years in eastern NSR are at risk.. insecurity is terrible for people and wildlife. This is a protected area that supports 70000 people and wildlife including 800 to 1000 lions

Ten dead in ‘brutal’ attacks by Isis-linked militants on Mozambique wildlife reserve Thousands have been displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa’s biggest protected areas

The Guardian: Ten dead in ‘brutal’ attacks by Isis-linked militants on Mozambique wildlife reserve

#Africa #SouthernAfrica
#Mozambique #ISIS
#Niassa #NiassaAttacks
#Conservation #Terrorism

"One of Africa’s largest protected areas ..."
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I see so many comments remarking that Bishops should not get involved in politics. How about Bishop Desmond Tutu who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end apartheid.

BREAKING 🚨: NASA dropped a new James Webb telescope deep space image 💫💫💫

All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯

A major red flag is when a conservation organisation has no consolidated budget or clear plan but adjusts activities to fit donors. Chasing the money might work short term, but it doesn't work longterm. Itresults in all these different shortterm projects unconnected to a broader mission.

I am told to take weekends, holidays for my wellbeing. But structure like that just makes me feel like I fail more. For me it works better to take moments, hours in amidst life and work to play.

I think it is more than that though. Some have to work to survive, whatever the work. They work hard and long and work is definitely not life. But it is people who work in vocational jobs that are often most frequently told to get "work/life balance". It doesn't fit.

To add, I am regularly told I need more "work/life balance" but I don't really know what this means. Life, work, family is all mixed up every day in what I do, what I read, what I think about.

Why is it always about finding work /life balance not work / family balance? My work is part of my life and purpose. It seems weird to not consider it life, I spend a lot of time doing work, it is part of who I am.

The situation continues to be complicated in #Mozambique. Demonstrations to contest the provisional electoral result have been going on for a month now and they have lost no steam...

One of my favourite images from 2024 to start. Wilderness without people feels empty to me. There is beauty in coexistence. This image is from one early morning in Niassa Reserve, Mozambique on the Lugenda River where I have lived, dreamed, tried and worked since 2003.