Last: The Story of a White Rhino

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The illustrations of the city incorporate quotes from advertising and environmental speeches translated into different languages. He was then moved to the highly surveilled Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya, which was a last-ditch effort to encourage procreation with the remaining females of his subspecies. As of March 2018, there are only two rhinos of the northern white rhino left, both of which are female. A rhinoceros remembers his life before grey captivity, one full of colour, with familiar smells and sights.

In WILD ABOUT DOLPHINS, Nicola Davies describes her voyages in a firsthand account filled with fascinating facts and captivating photographs of seven species of dolphins in action. And increasingly, rhino poachers are arrested before they can commit their crimes, having directly saved at least 30 rhinos between January 2018 and December 2020. Nicola Davies's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for studying animals of all kinds has led her around the world--and fortunately for young readers, she is just as excited about sharing her interests through picture books.

Co-founders George Church, a Harvard Medical School biologist, and tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm, set out to “launch a practical and effective de-extinction model and be the first to apply advanced genetic modification techniques to reintroduce woolly mammoths into the Arctic tundra”.

Her first book with Candlewick Press, BIG BLUE WHALE, was hailed by American Bookseller as an "artfully composed study" offering "language exactly appropriate for four- to seven-year-olds and precisely the right amount of information. Davies has long been a successful advocate for animal and environmental protection but this is her first foray into illustration. You don’t have a mother for a species that – if they are anything like elephants – has extraordinarily strong mother-infant bonds that last for a very long time,” she told the New York Times last year. Based on the true story of the last white rhino named Sudan, an emotional story with beautiful illustrations. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

A rhinoceros is captured by poachers and put in a zoo in the middle of a grey city, where all he can do is pace back and forth. Even if you live 10,000 miles away, you can make a difference with your awareness or tourism dollars. There is also the hope that brightens his heart when he finds other rhinos, and he is no longer alone.