About Us
What does Gondwana Alive do?
Gondwana Alive is predominantly involved in education (raising awareness) about the most destructive threats to our environment and what can be done to prevent them. Accordingly we see the need to inform as wide an audience as possible on these problems and the action required.
We are thus in the process of publishing our second volume “101 Strategies to Stem the Sixth Extinction”. We’re also actively involved in South Africa with the Department of Education and SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) in getting schools and teachers to adopt our educational programmes.
What can you do?
It is your individual responsibility to ensure that you do everything within your lifestyle to prevent the destruction of our planet. Setting an example is one of the most powerful influences you can exercise. It starts with you! Gondwana gives the direction.
The Organization
A not-for-profit organisation in South Africa. We are a global community of scientists and business people dedicated to stemming the Sixth Extinction and the promoting of global biodiversity. Through our scientific research, special projects and campaigns, we are able to provide real solutions to both the general public, industry, commerce and the scientific community. We seek to ensure global survival through positive action and a commitment to care for our planet.
What is Gondwana Alive?
Gondwana (Gondwanaland) is the ultra-ancient super continent that began to split up around 250 million years ago into the current southern continents we now know as South America, Africa, Australasia and Antarctica. Today when we speak of Gondwana Alive we refer to life that originally started on the ancient Gondwanan landmass. These continents no make up the sum of its parts and contain over 80% of the biodiversity on our planet.
We thus seek to sustain and protect our uniquely rich global heritage in areas such as the Equatorial Rain Forest of the Amazon and the Floristic Region of the South African Cape.
Environmental Education
The “Adopt-a-Strategy” competition aims to involve learners from all the schools in South Africa in our quest to stem the Sixth Extinction. The “101 Strategies” book consists of a set of strategies designed to make learners become active in protecting and sustaining the earth. The strategies are diverse – embracing resources ranging from science, spirituality, arts, religion and philosophy. The South African National Botanical Institute environmental education centers are engaged in this project.
GondwanaAlive.org Web Site
Gondwana Alive! has developed the Gondwana Alive Portal. This portal will develop into a community-based interactive centre for supporters of Gondwana Alive. We plan to enable connectivity and interaction between participants so as to further the war against the Sixth Extinction. The entire “101 Strategies” from our above-mentioned publication will in due course be available, free for the public to read online.