But the concern was fleeting - young children won’t notice and it doesn’t hinder the overall message of care for wildlife, conservation, and preservation. Sign up to the Future Earth newsletter to get essential climate news and hopeful developments in your inbox every Tuesday from Carl Nasman. Come and check out our first batch of resources, all about subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, and let us know what you think! Deceptively simple but subtle, this is an inspirational story to use with young children, dealing as it does with complex issues in a way that will open the door to much discussion. The western black rhino was declared extinct seven years ago, another victim of the lucrative and illegal rhino-horn trade.

TRAFFIC, the world’s largest wildlife trade monitoring network, has played a vital role in bilateral law enforcement efforts between South Africa and Vietnam. Rhinos, the biological equivalent of armour-plated tanks with an anachronistic dinosaurian demeanour, are deceptively docile. I think their agenda is genuine and motivated by a real desire to help the world,” says Dr Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist from the Natural History Museum. He struggled, at first, to stand back up — his caretakers crouched and heaved, trying to help — but his legs were too weak. Told in first person/animal from the rhino’s perspective the plight and hopelessness of the situation tugs at the heart strings as the rhino himself implores the reader to help and do more.The northern white rhino was once abundant across Central Africa, but staggering rates of illegal hunting for its horn have already led to its (almost certain) extinction in the wild.

Rhinos contribute to economic growth and sustainable development through the tourism industry, which creates job opportunities and provides tangible benefits to local communities living alongside rhinos. This minimalist storytelling requires readers to read between the lines and guess about some of the events that are transpiring in the same way that the rhino does since the story is told from his point of view. He describes a joyless life for all the animals with him, before being rescued and brought back home.Previous efforts to insert hormonal implants or artificially inseminate females failed, as did transporting the last two males and females to Kenya where it was hoped they would be more likely to breed. The author’s afterword tells us that this book was inspired by the true story of Sudan, one of the last Northern White Rhinos in the world. When his mother dies, it only says she lies so still in the text, but the illustration shows a hunter with a gun next to a red-ended horn, implying he poached her for her horn. Adult males defend territories of roughly one square mile, which they mark with vigorously scraped dung piles. And the story speaks of the extinction of animals in Africa and other places where there are few of that species.

Sharing these moments of the very special environment that our planet is blessed with is a motivation to keep venturing into the wonders of nature's wilds, showing the characters in it that make it worth experiencing and preserving," says Karumba.Targeting the individual subsistence poachers doing the dirty work will not address the systemic framework of demand, Lawton says. The text and the illustrations together make the reader aware of the contrast between the life of the rhino before and during captivity. In South Africa and Kenya, it has been circulated into law as legal evidence in courts and rhino management. The bright colors of yellow, green, red, and orange are really only seen when the rhino is back in his homeland. The bleak and grey zoo scenes are peppered with quotes from advertising slogans and environmental speeches that are translated into different languages.

As they acknowledge elsewhere, it would be more like a “cold-resistant elephant with all the core biological traits of the woolly mammoths” who coexisted with early humans. Around 300ml of semen from Sudan and four other males, who he outlived, was collected over 15 years thanks to a variety of methods to arouse the animals, including one scientist jumping on the last male’s back.Illegal poaching, fueled by the increasing demand for keratin-rich rhino horn in traditional medicinal practices, has devastated the African rhino population . Last is based on the true story of a Northern White Rhino named Sudan who was placed into a zoo in the Czech Republic in 1975 at aged two. Sudan and five other rhinos were taken to a zoo in the Czech Republic so they wouldn’t be killed for their horns.