A New Story for a New Year

Just before Christmas we shared some stories on humanity’s journey over the last 200 000 years. This year we take it to a whole new level with the 4 billion year old story of the mother continent from …

Africa Alive Corridors

A 4 billion year geological, biological & cultural biography of Africa

By J.M. Anderson and M de Wit

This story helps us to learn from the past to inform the future so we can create

“…a new tomorrow Africa,

a colossus amongst the continents….

Womb of our humanity & culture

Fountainhead of our art

Stem of human language

Cradle of our hominin ancestors & of our primate ancestors.

Heartland of Gondwana & Pangaea

Centre of Earth’s geo-biodiversity

Embracing Earth’s geodiversity hotspots & her terrestrial biodiversity hotspots

Home of her only intact megafauna.

But Continent of greatest human suffering & place of our biggest dreams.”

Download the pdf from our homepage for a snapshot into:

The Cradle to Cradle Corridor

Earth Time

Snowball Earth

The mother of all extinctions

Eastern Rift Valley

Colonisation of the World

The Valley of the Pharoahs

And more …

Keep watch for our next blogs on Preserving Biodiversity in your own Back Yard, the Homo sapien Corridor, Hunter-Gatherers, and more …