The average adult male human is comprised of 36 trillion cells (36,000,000,000,000) across 400 species. Females have around 27 trillion. And there is a constant reshuffling: some cells are replaced every few months, others last for life. Remarkable that something that complex could be held together in one bag of skin and bone.
Our rehabilitation and revegetation efforts at Carranya over the past decade or so have just passed a major milestone - 1,000 indigenous species fully documented, most with images. Details As shown in the accompanying table, the biodiversity covers pretty well the full gamut of living things. A couple of comments/caveats are in order: I have included all sightings, regardless of occurrence frequency - so, for example, a one-off visit from a pair of Sacred…
