Threads of Life
Evolution, Coexistence and the Future of the Maasai Mara
Exhibition design support: BGI Group
True conservation begins
with deep understanding
Welcome to the Maasai Mara, a land inscribed with an epic of life. Here the earth is not a silent stage but a great author. The scar of the Great Rift Valley is its first line of verse; three million years of wildebeest hoofprints and lion tracks are its enduring punctuation.
From the ancient genetic memory held in a grain of sand to the smallest insect and the largest elephant herd, everything here tells the same story: life is a vast, intricate and interconnected journey.
The poem of life is still being written — and you are now both its reader and part of it.
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Six galleries
“The story of life began with a rupture in the earth’s crust, endures in an eternal migration, and continues through a wise coexistence. Conservation begins with understanding, is fulfilled in action, and returns to coexistence. You, too, are part of this story.”