Born and grew up in the Savannas in north-central Namibia, I think the rural living has led to a permanent bond with life beyond that of our own species. My journey from ecosystem of birth enabled me to study most found in Southern Africa. Upon completing my BSc. in 2000 at the University of Namibia (UNAM), and still mystified by the Namib Desert ecosystem functioning, my research journey took me through a more humid Mediterranean Fynbos ecosystem, where I was involved in the Renosterveld Restoration Project at the University of Stellenbosch (2001 - 2002), for my MSc work. While they were still debating how Renosterveld plants bank their seeds, my research questions in the meantime took me to the arid and semi-arid Karoo, as a PhD fellow at the Plant Conservation Unit, University of Cape Town. In between I was employed as a Conservation Scientist with the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) firstly based in Ongwediva in 2000, and then in Windhoek in 2003 and in 2007 until early 2008 when I joined the University of Namibia (UNAM) as a Lecturer in Biological Sciences Department until mid-2012 when I took up my current excitement as Senior Researcher in the Ecology and Biodiversity Programme at the University’s Research Centre (MRC).