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Don Pinnock

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Freelance writer and photographer. Former editor of Getaway magazine, naturalist and photographer
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Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa's Last Biodiversity Blank Spots

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By Don Pinnock 
| AllAfrica
A major survey of Angola's remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa's most exciting biodiversity frontiers. High on Angola's eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa's great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower.
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Dozens of new species found in one of Africa’s last biodiversity blank spots Original

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By Don Pinnock 
| Daily Maverick
HIGHLANDS TREASURE A major survey of Angola’s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa’s most exciting biodiversity frontiers. Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science. (Photo: Nicky Bay) High on Angola’s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa’s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower.
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Thomas Berry and the forgotten language of the living Earth

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By Don Pinnock 
| Daily Maverick
In an age saturated with information, we tend to think of “texts” as things produced by human beings: books, reports, theories, screens filled with data. Yet the cultural historian and ecological thinker Thomas Berry suggested something far more radical. Long before the first human inscription on clay or parchment, he wrote, there existed another text: the Earth itself. Mountains, rivers, forests, insects, birds, soils and stars. Together these form what Berry called the “primary text”.
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