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Chapter 14 is an attempt to move away from an anthropocentric understanding of media technologies. The author draws on ideas from material media ecology practice, affect theories, memory studies, and ethnoecology to study the case of a CR station in Telangana, India, that is embedded within a larger biodiversity movement in the region. The author believes that Sangam Radio, which lies within a unique interlay of memory, media, and biodiversity, serves important archival and mnemonic functions within the larger movement and that such spaces need to be recognised and celebrated, as they provide a real alternative to the homogenising tendency of neoliberalism.