Last: The Story of a White Rhino

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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. Last would be a valuable and important addition to primary school libraries and classrooms prompting discussion and encouraging children to find out more. Brought back from the brink of extinction, their survival is once again threatened by relentless poaching for the illegal trade in their horn. She got her first pair of binoculars for her eighth birthday and remembers spotting a male blackbird through them!

This is completely cutting edge in terms of endangered species,” says Jan Stejskal, the international projects director at the Dvůr KrálovFé zoo in the Czech Republic, where the last northern whites were born.Brutally taken from his mother, who was shot for her horn by poachers, he is shipped to a zoo devoid of any colour, smell, natural sound or life. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The first viable IVF pregnancy in a southern white rhino has raised hope that these animals could be brought back from the brink.

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. This story, in a fun and adventurous way, tells readers about the important environmental problems of our Earth. Through his eyes you see how things you used to be, a love for his mother, and what happened when he was captured and brought to the zoo. Into this bleak cityscape, the only colour we see is that of the occasional humans and in particular one woman observing the animals, who is later to be seen after the release into the wild observing the rhino through her binoculars. View image in fullscreen “We get so excited about creating new things, but completely neglect to think about value in other ways.

The home range for adult females can be more than seven times larger, depending on habitat quality and population density.