Wild Tomorrow is delighted to rely the sensible artistic husband-wife illustrator-author group of John and Haley Rocco amongst our ambassadors. Their new youngsters’s ebook Wild Locations: The Lifetime of Naturalist David Attenborough teaches younger readers concerning the magnificence and significance of animals, crops, and wild locations by the eyes of Sir David, from his boyhood fascination with fossils, rocks, and newts within the English countryside to his world profession bringing the pure world to our residing rooms by the tv display. Wild Locations reveals how Attenborough witnesses widespread environmental destruction, noticing “that the wild locations had been shrinking, whereas the not-so-wild locations stored on increasing,” similtaneously local weather change poses ever extra threats to life on Earth. But, the ebook leaves youngsters with the hopeful message that “if we act now, we are able to but put it proper” by rewilding the planet and residing extra sustainably.
The Roccos first related with Wild Tomorrow whereas researching pangolins for a title of their upcoming “Meet the Wild Issues” collection of kids’s books on endangered species. Hayley first realized about Wild Tomorrow after studying a weblog put up about our work to reintroduce pangolins to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and shortly jumped on considered one of our two-week Conservation Expertise journeys in 2022.
Defending and restoring the pure world is central to Hayley and John Rocco’s work and hearts.They co-founded the Kids’s Ebook Creators for Conservation (CBCC), a collective group of kids’s ebook authors and illustrators who amplify the work of organizations like Wild Tomorrow by storytelling, and introduced 9 CBCC members to the Larger Ukuwela Reserve on a brilliant artistic and galvanizing volunteer journey final yr.
Hayley and John know the significance of instructing youngsters about nature and conservation. Sharing tales of untamed creatures and the habitats on which they rely captures younger imaginations and empowers them to turn into higher guardians of the world they are going to inherit.
We’re profoundly honored that Hayley and John determined to dedicate their stunning ebook to our co-founders “Wendy Hapgood and John Steward of Wild Tomorrow, who risked all the pieces to assist wildlife and wild locations in South Africa. You function an inspiration that we are able to all do our half for the larger good of the planet.” Additionally they despatched their because of “Tori Grey, Greg Canning, Kevin Jolliffe, and your complete group of Wild Tomorrow, for successfully increasing wild locations for the betterment of wildlife and our world.”
Wild Tomorrow’s co-founder, Wendy Hapgood, famous the parallels between Wild Tomorrow’s mission and David Attenborough’s central message, given voice to within the ebook: “We should rewild the world”. Wendy says, “An enormous step in the direction of repairing our planet is connecting youngsters’s hearts and minds to nature. We love that this very particular ebook brings David Attenborough’s story to life on the web page, as a name to motion to revive wild locations”.