Last is a book for our world today, an important reminder of what we are in danger of losing and a rallying cry to join together to do our part to help. 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. This massive undertaking has the late Ian Player credited with the recovery of the White rhino species as their population grew every year since Operation Rhino until 2012-2013, when poaching deaths started outnumbering rhino births. As it comes to rescuing Sudan, she appears more often and, as an adult, she ensures that he is safe and well-treated until he finds himself back home.

What can the four peaceful and not very formidable animals oppose to poachers who have powerful guns? LAST: THE STORY OF A WHITE RHINO tells the story of the real rhino, Sudan, who is one of the last Northern White Rhinos in existence. In this book, inspired by a true story about a rhino named Sudan, she imagines the loneliness of the last white rhino as he contemplates being the last of his species.Trade data indicates the lowest annual estimate of rhino horns entering illegal trade markets since 2013. The home range for adult females can be more than seven times larger, depending on habitat quality and population density. And indeed she did--as part of a pair of scientific expeditions, one to Newfoundland at the age of eighteen and another to the Indian Ocean a year later. This is a term used by conservationists to describe a species (or subspecies) that still exists, but in such small numbers that it is doomed to die out.

Tourists got emotional, because they knew they were laying hands on a singular creature, a primordial giant about to slide off into the void.To the best of our knowledge, mini-brains like these have only been obtained from mouse, human and non-human primates so far,” says Dr Silke Frahm-Barske, from the Pluripotent Stem Cells Platform at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin. This is to contrast the bleakness of advertising with inspirational words: she quotes Paul Hawken on planet-saving, ‘Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done’.

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This story is heart-wrenching but true, with the final note that explains that Sudan was the last male Northern White Rhino. The text and the illustrations together make the reader aware of the contrast between the life of the rhino before and during captivity. 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. You will find many creative activities based on each book to make reading even more enjoyable and interactive.

She was inspired by the true story of the last Northern White Rhino who lived in a conservancy in Kenya--with armed guards for his safety! While Namibia was spared during the first few years of the present wildlife crime crisis, since 2013, poaching of rhino and elephant and rhino, as well as of other species (e. Vitale has been taking photos for National Geographic magazine since 2008, and she credits the rhinos for changing her career path. The growing efforts to save extant, but seriously threatened, species come alongside a controversial wider de-extinction movement that seeks to bring versions of lost animal breeds, such as woolly mammoths, back to life.The multilingual approach emphasises the universality of the need to engage with environmental issues. When Dr Natalie Cooper, a scientist at the Natural History Museum, met Sudan, the last surviving northern white male rhino, in Kenya before he died aged 45, she understandably feared the subspecies’ extinction was certain – mostly due to poaching fuelled by human greed for the prized horn. For an even better way to find EYFS resources, discover tailored suggestions, and much more - visit the EYFS resource HUB! TRAFFIC, the world’s largest wildlife trade monitoring network, has played a vital role in bilateral law enforcement efforts between South Africa and Vietnam. Special prosecutors have been appointed in countries like Kenya and South Africa to prosecute rhino crimes in a bid to deal with the mounting arrests and bring criminals to face swift justice with commensurate penalties.