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Listening part 2:

- The centre is run by volunteers and was set out 15 years ago to educate people about nature.
- Take groups of youngsters on educational programs on weekends for the past 2 years
- Initially not impressed. -> by they end don’t want to leave 
- Main income is from running the educational courses.
- 1 cabin for students, 16 students in bunk beds.
- 4 cabins are for families.
- 1 for teachers, which can hold 6 adults.
- The educational facilities are quite up-to-date.
- A cafeteria.
- A picnic area. We don’t allow open-air cooking here.
- The plant nursery runs all the way along the North part.
- The centre is high up -> breathtaking views of the countryside.
- The landscape has not altered for centuries.
- The aim of the centre and volunteers is to keep it that way.
- As people walk through the woodland, people are asked not to remove seeds or flowers from
the woodland.

Listening part 4:
- Migration of early humans
+ Human migration has occurred throughout history.
+ The first significant migration in East Africa, about 100,000 years ago.
+ 70,000 years ago the Earth became warmer. Another group migrated out of Africa, following
basically the same root and then moving on to South Asia.
- Colonization
+ 50,000 years ago, colonised China.
+ 45,000 years ago, reached Europe.
+ 40,000 years ago, settled in Syberia.
+ 20,000 years ago, reached Japan, which at the time was connected to the main land mass.
+ There was no land connection between Australia and Southeast Asia. The first Australians use
simple boats to reach the Australian continent.
+ Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago: Asia to North America via Alaska.
- Migration within Africa
+ Bantu: around 30% of the African continent by 1,000 AD.
+ Population expansion -> movement into surrounding areas that were not heavily populated.
+ Iron production introduced from Sudan.
- The Bantu used iron tools to fell trees, clear forests and work fields.
- Had a military advantage over their neighbours.

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