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For more than 20 years Heike Pander has gained Baobab expertise as an ethnologist and author. She has聽collected stories, talked with residents and users of the trees and nurtured a lively exchange with scientists, other experts and producers. She has visited Baobab locations in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botsuana, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa.

She works as a freelance ethnologist, journalist and artist with a focus on sustainability, fair trade (tourism, food, fashion), traveling, art, culture, lifestyle and of course聽her specialty: baobabs. She has聽twenty years of work experience in international聽development.

The Tsumkwe聽Baobab (Pirate Ship):

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Hetty Ninnis is team leader in the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall , where Brett went to see a young Baobab tree.

Hetty has worked at the Eden Project for 11 years, looking after their tropical crops exhibit for five years and six as Rainforest Biome Supervisor. She manages a team of five horticulturalists and thousands of tropical plants. She says 鈥淚 am passionate about the Rainforest ecosystem, it amazing plants, especially the incredible trees that do so much for us and our planet. I helped to plant one of our Baobab Adansonia digitata trees 聽a few years ago, it had been in a gigantic pot for many years so it is good to see it go I in the ground and watch it flourish. It is still much smaller than the mature Adansonia gregorii trees- Boab - I experienced in the Kimberly north Western Australia great and squat alien giants dotting the extraordinary landscape.鈥�

The Eden project has a project which sources baobabs from Malawi for their Baobab bar, cafes and shops聽 and in so doing supports聽 rural harvesters in Malawi

Sarah Venter has been fascinated by baobabs since she was a child and is founder of EcoProducts which is based in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The vision is to make a meaningful contribution to the livelihoods of rural people and to the conservation of baobab trees.

EcoProducts buys baobab fruit from rural communities. The fruit are processed in our factory to extract baobab powder and baobab oil. The extracts are packaged and sold to retail stores and sold in bulk to local and international manufacturers of food and cosmetic products.

Sarah says 鈥淔ounding and running EcoProducts is one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done. 聽Having a business in which I am involved in the science and conservation of baobabs and at the same time creating employment and supporting communities is hugely fulfilling. 鈥溌�