How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

As a scientist and conservationist, I have been inspired by David's writing for a long time. He joined us on the Cubango River Megatransect in 2017, which reminded me to read this book that I'd been given recently. I feel like David brought me a little closer to understanding the man, Charles Darwin, and his journey to discovering the secrets of who we really are.

As Professor Emeritus at Harvard, Edward O. Wilson has published hundreds of essays and scientific papers in high-impact, international journals. This book, however, shares a vision for our world for all of us to understand and act upon. Half-Earth proposes just that — to protect half of our planet's land surface to preserve global biodiversity and ourselves. We are the sixth extinction because we left no safe space for millions of species to sustainably co-exist.

Bill Bryson is typically a travel writer that takes you on incredible, witty journeys across the Appalachian Trail or Australia. In this book, he takes us on a journey into the fundamentals of who we are, how everything works and the complexities of life and the universe through the eyes and experiences of the scientists that made these discoveries. It is rollercoaster ride that left me motivated to learn, explore and discover!

I have never encountered a series of lectures in text quite like this. For years this book was on my bedside table, and for years it never failed to confuse, tying my brain in knots. After years of becoming familiar with some of the concepts he was putting forward, I began to have realizations about my own human experience in the wilderness and its fundamental importance to our very existence. The whole world around us is simple a projection of how we perceive it.

Hard to review my own film, but the six-year journey in making this has reformed who I am. Here is a film review by the Hollywood Reporter.

It was the beauty and cinematography of this film, and the story of exploring a new world, which helped explain to me where the director of our film, Neil Gelinas, was going. It was simply a beautiful visual experience that shows the beauty and struggle of exploration, and meeting the people that are the custodians of these forgotten, pristine landscapes. The emotions you feel watching this film should be translated to our attitude towards people and corporations destroying wild landscapes and indigenous communities.