'The Herds': The animal puppets art project set to travel 20,000km across the world

The new project, from the team behind the Syrian refugee puppet Little Amal which traversed the globe, aims to raise awareness about climate change.

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00:00Through theatre, we can engage with the major issues of the day.

00:28We're looking particularly for a way in which this very central event in our lives,

00:36climate change, can be expressed not in scientific terms. We need to know the science,

00:42but the science doesn't move people, the science doesn't cause people to

00:46take action to protect themselves. What we think we might be able to do is allow people

00:52to engage emotionally with what is already happening all over the planet.

01:17There is a public company in South Africa called Ukwanda. The designs are theirs

01:22and there's been a group of our technical arts for theatre and performance students

01:26who have been taking the ideas and taking the designs and making them and developing

01:33the making process as we've been going through the term.

01:41It's nice to be collaborating with people and to be part of this because it's a big global project

01:49traveling all over the world. I've been making everything here from the start of it like the

01:56bones, the structure, to the outside where you put the skin on top of it and the horns, the heads,

02:03everything, the joints all together basically.

02:06It's important for the conversation, humbly, right? I don't know if what we add to the

02:12conversation will change the world, most probably it won't, it doesn't matter. I think the problem

02:17is not lack of knowledge. I think the problem is we know so much we're becoming desperate,

02:24we're becoming defeated, but we need to be able to say, okay, this is what I want to do,

02:32defeated, but we need a good reminder of how beautiful nature is.