Saving Sorya - Chang and the Sun Bear | Nguyen Thi Thu Trang | englisch


Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023

Autor: Nguyen Thi Thu Trang
Format: kartoniert
Seitenanzahl: 112
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 20230715
Sprache: englisch
Altersempfehlung: von 7 bis 11 Jahren
Genre: Importe
Region: Vietnam
Höhe in mm: 10
Länge in mm: 256
Breite in mm: 185
Gewicht in g: 410
Beschreibung

Born Free for a new generation.


Portrait
Trang Nguyen is a Vietnamese wildlife conservationist, environmental activist and writer, known for tackling the illegal wildlife trade in Africa and Asia. She graduated with her PhD in Biodiversity Management at the University of Kent, England. In 2018, Trang was featured in the documentary film Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War alongside Jane Goodall. She was selected for BBC s 100 Women of 2019 list and for the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. Trang is the founder and executive director of WildAct, an NGO that monitors the illegal wildlife trade markets and provides conservation education programmes for Vietnamese youth. She is also a member of the IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group, which promotes the conservation of bears living in their natural habitats around the world. Saving H'non: Chang and the Elephant is her second children s book, and the follow-up to Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear.