Rachel and I ran an online workshop from Fremantle with the staff at the Luang Prabang Library on Monday 7th December about Pangolins. This was at their request. We knew next to nothing about pangolins before I delved into my research. The pangolin is one of the most poached mammals in the world... and the world knew very little about it until the Covid 19 pandemic hit us all in 2020 and we learnt about the role that the pangolin played in the incubation of the virus from the wet markets in Asia. Amazing!! They created clay pangolins and clay ants and termites for the story that we wrote about The last pangolin. They will use the animals from the Tiger diorama that they created last month to tell the narrative to the children in the Village schools up and down the Mekong over the next few months. To say we were thrilled with their work is an understatement!!!
Pangolin workshop outline:
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The Last pangolin diorama.
Below is the Pangolin text made using the animals and scenes in the diorama that the Luang Prabang Library staff created telling the story of the Last pangolin. We have sent it on to the World Wide Fund for Nature in Laos [ http://www.wwf.org.la/ to make some decisions about its usefulness to them and the viability of translating the story into Laotian for the village schools nearby... certainly we need to do this for the Library itself. They are going to add this text to their Pangolin activities on World Pangolin day: 15th February 2020. Brilliant!!! We can only repeat, that we are thrilled with their work.
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January Pangolin workshop in Nong Khiaow with some very familiar faces.. fantastic!!