Being a Wildlife Author Has a Few Downsides

Being a wildlife author has a few downsides. In order to write, and do justice by wildlife's stories, my research often reveals many distressing truths behind the wildlife afflicted by pollution, habitat loss, trafficking, and all the other factors fuelling our wildlife's current decline.

So, positive news of #thehighseastreaty (BBNJ Agreement) brings me a ray of hope for our oceans, and the animals that inhabit it.

I've been busy for the past 3 months, illustrating my next children's book (sneak preview of #AlbatrossandtheRubbish below), which I hope will provide a meaningful contribution towards public awareness of our current #globaloceanplastic problem.

Albatross encountering a critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale. There are only around 370 of these baleen whales left, of which approximately 70 are female.

Writing and illustrating topics such as this is incredibly challenging. There's a delicate balance to be made between doing justice to such an important subject, and producing a children’s book for the very young that's meaningful, fun, and captures the hearts and minds of its readers and listeners, especially when your aim is to educate and inspire future generations to embrace #conservation. So, I hope my readers will forgive me, the time afforded to do justice to our wildlife's stories.