Join us as we explore the pavilions celebrating the diverse world of animal life at Expo 2020! We visit the Gabon, Madagascar and Slovenia Pavilions! Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice. Enjoy watching the show and chat on Facebook, YouTube or Twitch account to earn points! Photosensitivity warning: some locations in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Ep 27: Slovenia, Gabon and Madagascar Pavilions

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Join us as we explore the pavilions celebrating the diverse world of animal life at Expo 2020. We visit the Gabon, Madagascar and Slovenia Pavilions!

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With more than 10 per cent of Gabon designated as national parkland, this Central African nation is a haven for a spectacular array of wildlife: from gorillas and forest elephants to marine turtles and three species of crocodiles. 
Get wild at the Gabon Pavilion, and explore this adventure sports paradise, which boasts hundreds of kilometres of rugged forest ready for quad off-roading and eco safari hikes. Meanwhile, vibrant capital city Libreville shows off Gabon’s more cosmopolitan side, meshing African tradition with colonial French flair. 

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Experience an eco-tourism haven boasting plant and animal species found nowhere else on the planet. 

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A true natural marvel, creatures that call this African island home include wide-eyed sifaka lemurs, nocturnal aye-ayes, vividly-coloured tomato frogs and the world’s rarest duck — the Madagascar Pochard. The Madagascar Pavilion showcases the best of the island’s tourism destinations, details its efforts to make trademark industries more sustainable and highlights the potential for investors to get involved in one of the globe’s most special destinations.


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Find out how Madagascar is building a sustainable, synergetic relationship with its environment.

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Slovenia has become known as the green heart of Europe for its lush forests and picturesque lakes, and the nation is sharing this at Expo 2020. With its huge plant-covered façade and stylish “floating forest” feel, the Slovenia Pavilion is a soothing green oasis where you can explore the country’s natural treasures and sustainable solutions.

The pavilion boasts exhibits such as multisensory 360-degree projected movies and a virtual heartbeat composed of visitors’ unique biosignatures. It also focuses on the cherished Slovenian tradition of beekeeping, with features about honey spas and Slovenia’s other bee-themed tourism attractions.


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The architectural team behind the Slovenia Pavilion used the simple words “water, greenery, wood” as a jumping off point to build a dreamy floating forest. The central building is an immense glass and steel oval structure almost entirely covered in a vertical garden of local plants and flowers in varying shades of green. This cloud-like forest is set on columns that hover over a shallow pool that represents Slovenia’s lakes and rivers. 

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Live@Expo Ep 27: Slovenia, Gabon and Madagascar Pavilions

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Ever played a game of Jenga and watched the whole structure collapse as your remove one peg? This applies to strong and unexplored links among all species, including our own, and the loss of even one of them impacting many in unexpected ways. 

Nature’s complex web make it possible for all of us to live on earth. As we encroach more on our natural habitats, we are actually growing more disconnected from nature. Because of human activity, close to one million animal and plant species could soon go extinct, leading to a chain of unpredictable consequences. These intrusions are affecting entire communities at an unprecedented scale and frequency, from wildfires to global pandemics and insect invasions. As we continue to weigh this dilemma, it is urgent we find solutions to protect our ecosystems and support our long-term ability to thrive not just alongside nature, but also as part of it. 


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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

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Timelapse of Terra 

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We stand at the brink of a crucial moment in time - a moment in which we must take decisive collective action to protect our planet, and the life it sustains, for future generations. It is an opportunity for us to take our place in history as the generation that stepped up to halt climate change, and transform human activity to operate within Earth's planetary boundaries. 

Expo 2020 Dubai's Climate & Biodiversity Week convenes government decision-makers, business leaders, youth advocates and our millions of visitors to address the greatest challenge of our time and generate solutions critical to the future of our civilisation and the health of our planet. 

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The magnificent, snow-capped Swiss Alps are renowned for their stunning natural majesty. Now, at Expo 2020, you can have your own breathtaking alpine experience – no climbing boots or ice axe required. The Switzerland Pavilion offers a simulated hike through the country’s mountains, traversing a dense sea of fog. After cresting the spectacular summit, you’ll reach an enchanting city of opportunities where you can explore Swiss innovation, take in traditional performances and sample mouth-watering Swiss chocolate.

  Immersive simulated hike amid the Swiss Alps

High-tech interactive exhibits exploring Swiss innovation

Rooftop terrace bar, and delicious Swiss chocolates at the Sprüngli Café

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The Switzerland Pavilion's bold, funnel-shaped mirror façade reflects the ground in front of the pavilion: a massive red carpet decorated with a white Swiss cross. The polygonal mirror panels converge at a  doorway in the lower left of the building, crafted from scaffolding and textiles inspired by Bedouin tents. 

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Dr. Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri is the Secretary General of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), the largest environmental regulator in the Middle East, responsible for protecting and preserving natural 
resources and promoting sustainable development in the emirate. She holds a PhD degree in Wildlife Conservation and Protection from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, the first Emirati woman to earn the accolade. She has overseen the implementation of innovative programs on biodiversity, protected areas, threatened species and fisheries, including national and global species reintroduction programs.
Among her wide-ranging involvement in national and international committees and organisations working in environmental protection, Dr. Shaikha serves as the Chair of the IUCN UAE National Committee.

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Secretary General of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD)

H.E. Dr. Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri

Sir Tim Smit is best known for his achievements in Cornwall. He ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson, which is now one of the UK’s best loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ won Book of the Year in 1997.

Tim is Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 22 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Tim is also Executive Co-Chair for Eden Project International which aims to have an Eden Project on every habited continent by 2025.

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Executive Chair and Founding Director, Eden Project, United Kingdom

Sir Tim Smit

Alexandre Roulin is a full professor of biology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an evolutionary biologist interested in the evolution of life. His atypical career path began with an apprenticeship of civil engineering, followed by night school to get his “maturity degree” before attending university. His main scientific interests are the adaptive function of melanin-based coloration and negotiation processes taking place in animal societies using the barn owl as a model organism. His research is now expanding into other fields such as conservation psychology and social psychology.

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Head of the Owl for Peace Initiative, University of Lausanne

Professor Alexandre Roulin

Dr. Emiliano Esterci Ramalho is the Technical-Scientific Director of the Mamirauá Institute, coordinator of Project Providence, and leader of the Amazon Field Ecology and Conservation Research Group. He was a CAPES/Fulbright scholar at the University of Florida, where he earned a Ph.D. in the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. He is a founding member of the Alliance for the Conservation of the Jaguar and a member of the Instituto Pró-Carnívoros. He dedicated the last 16 years of his career to jaguar conservation in the Amazonian Flooded Forests with the aim of reducing the number of jaguars killed by hunters and improving the quality of people who live with the species. He is currently responsible for the largest and oldest jaguar research and conservation program in the Brazilian Amazon.

5. Dr Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, PhD

Technical and Scientific Director, Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, Brazil

Dr. Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, PhD

Up to September 2021, Gerrard Albert has been the Chair of Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, the post-settlement governance body for Whanganui Iwi (Iwi means a Māori tribal grouping) established at settlement of the tribe’s claim with the New Zealand Government in 2014. As a result of the claim settlement, New Zealand accorded legal personhood to the Whanganui River, flipping the existing paradigm by placing the River as the focus of human interaction in line with the indigenous value set of Whanganui Iwi, called Tupua Te Kawa, now shared with the nation. Since then, other nations have followed suit in an effort to protect the environment by according to values, or legal rights to natural resources.

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Chair of Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, Whanganui Iwi, New Zealand

Gerrard Albert

Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy is a Lead Scientist in the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich. Lalasia's research bridges population and community ecology, with an emphasis on comparative demography. A central theme of her work is identifying the environmental factors and phylogenetic relationships that shape population and community dynamics. Her work ranges from conducting manipulative field experiments to identify the drivers of elevated extinction risk, to leveraging global demographic datasets to characterize the impacts of global change on forest trees. Lalasia received her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and did a postdoc at the University of Tennessee and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Center.

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy

Lead Scientist, Crowther Lab ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy

Professor Dr. Thomas Crowther is a professor in the department of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zurich, where he founded Crowther Lab, an interdisciplinary group of scientists studying global ecosystems and generating knowledge to protect biodiversity and address climate change, deepening public and scientific understanding of the role of nature-based solutions. 

In 2021, Crowther Lab launched Restor, an independent not-for-profit open data platform that provides transparency and connectivity to conservation and restoration efforts across the globe. Crowther has been named a WEF Young Global Leader for his work and serves on the advisory council of WEF’s Trillion Trees initiative (1T.org). He also serves as co-chair of the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, along with Lucy Mulenkei.


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Ecologist, Professor and Founder of Crowther Lab, ETH Zurich 

Professor Thomas Crowther

10. Pablo Fajardo

Pablo Fajardo

9. Miha Hrovat

Miha Hrovat

Explore a series of exciting conversations inspired by the theme of Expo 2020 Dubai. The World Majlis is a vibrant forum where diverse points of views are shared on important topics of our time. Each conversation brings together globally recognised thought-leaders who are invited for their exceptional contributions to the theme and their unique perspective on the topic. In each Majlis, students and members of the public are also welcome to contribute and engage.

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Humanimals will take you on a journey through the animal kingdom. This family show will delight and entertain all who encounter it at the Dubai Millenium Ampitheatre.

Live@Expo Ep 27: Slovenia, Gabon and Madagascar Pavilions

Ep 27: Slovenia, Gabon and Madagascar Pavilions

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