We’re past excited to announce that our inventive storytelling ambassadors, the youngsters’s guide husband and spouse staff, creator Hayley Rocco and illustrator John Rocco, have launched a brand new guide that includes an endangered species that we care deeply about and work onerous to preserve, the pangolin. Printed by Penguin Random Home, Hiya, I’m a Pangolin is the second guide of their sequence Meet the Wild Issues, created to show younger readers about this endangered species and human efforts to guard them.
The Rocco’s first met Wild Tomorrow whereas researching pangolins for this very guide! Hayley discovered us whereas researching on-line, which led her to our weblog submit about our work supporting the pangolin reintroduction program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. When she noticed we had a two-week conservation expertise journey developing rapidly on our journey calendar, she made a last-minute, life-changing determination to hitch us within the discipline! In the course of the journey, Hayley met the inspiring staff of individuals caring for Temminck’s pangolins in our area – from the displays who monitor them within the discipline each day, to the veterinarians and our program supervisor Tori Grey who made Hayley’s ‘meet a pangolin’ want come true!
Hiya, I am a Pangolin, impressed by Hayley’s analysis journey to the sphere with Wild Tomorrow, takes readers on a journey by way of the lifetime of this unimaginable animal, exploring its distinctive traits, habitat, and threats from poaching and habitat destruction. With lovely, zoologically detailed drawings and brief, humorous bursts of textual content within the pangolin’s voice, Hayley and John hope that this story will deliver younger readers new insights and empathy for the world’s most trafficked mammal.
Constructing consciousness and help for pangolins (beginning with attending to know them!) is pressing. It’s estimated that as many as 2.7 million African pangolins are being poached annually – disappearing from our planet. Hayley rigorously compiled pangolin information for the guide, checking with conservationists, scientists and different specialists to make sure accuracy, whereas writing in a voice that readers of ages 3-7 years will hook up with.