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A review by electraa
Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Environmental Allies by Rebel Girls
4.0
I love this series!
We are transported through the stories of women scientists to different ecosystems and the animals living within them. We start with Amanda and Heather who are scuba diving studying seahorses that founded Project Seahorse with the aim to protect marine ecosystems. Then we follow Bella who managed to correspond with THE David Attenborough and ended up banning the use of animals in UK circuses. Next, we meet Bindi who was positively influenced by her nature-loving parents and wants to pass that love on in a detached from nature society.
Biruté's love for orangutans started by reading Curious George to finding herself reintroducing over 500 individuals back to the wild. Christina became an expert on hippos and got known for her dedication to a little hippo named Fiona. Corina and her love for birds inspired the Black birders initiative! Christina and her enamoured passion for capturing the beauty of the ocean with her camera, The ocean but sharks specifically due to their bad reputation additionally, inspired Eugenie to become an ichthyologist and break down some myths around the fear of sharks. Gillian with her view on nature is that there are so many stories to be told and narrated to the world. Then we have filmmaker Gunjan who would through high altitudes and jungles to capture the wildlife. We meet Hana who is determined to fight to preserve the nature of her country, Iraq despite all the difficulties she is facing. Of course, such a book could not exist without mentioning Jane and her work as a primatologist (working with apes and showing their connection to humans).
In the second half of the book, we meet Julie, a conservationist biologist and her love at first sight with a lemur when she was 13. You may know Kirsten Bell as a famous actress from Holywood but she is also one of the proponents of the 'Adopt, Don't shop' mantra. She absolutely is a dog person! Then we have Kristen and her love for bats whilst we learn that everything that shaped her career started as a Girl Scout project. So inspiring! Reptiles are not as loved as other cuter and fluffier species but that did not stop Laura from becoming a herpetologist and seeing their beauty reflected in her eyes. We then meet Leela, an expert in lions who tries to reintroduce this species that has become extinct in parts of the world such as Egypt where she is from. Another conservationist called Maria loves hard-scaled pangolins and other endangered species and speaks for them! We then continue with Olivia and her butterflies. She is a pollinator activist. How freaking cool is that of a job description???
In Nigeria, we meet Rachel, another conservationist, working mainly around the Niger Delta area. Saengduean is a person where basically animals go for retirement to live their last days on this Earth as well as animals that just need recovery from abuse, trauma and/or injury. Meet Sami a talented artist that brings beauty to any peculiar animal you may think of. Exhibit designer, Sue, recreates habits in zoos inspired by their homelands for the animals to feel more at home. Temple, an autistic woman, decided to take action and educate people about her condition as well as talk about how important it is to address farm animal welfare. Last but not least, we learn about Tolani, a veterinarian who has even founded an animal hospital to host both 2 and 4-legged creatures.
I cannot wait to teach my daughter about all these women through these books and inspire her to become one with nature. :) Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
We are transported through the stories of women scientists to different ecosystems and the animals living within them. We start with Amanda and Heather who are scuba diving studying seahorses that founded Project Seahorse with the aim to protect marine ecosystems. Then we follow Bella who managed to correspond with THE David Attenborough and ended up banning the use of animals in UK circuses. Next, we meet Bindi who was positively influenced by her nature-loving parents and wants to pass that love on in a detached from nature society.
Biruté's love for orangutans started by reading Curious George to finding herself reintroducing over 500 individuals back to the wild. Christina became an expert on hippos and got known for her dedication to a little hippo named Fiona. Corina and her love for birds inspired the Black birders initiative! Christina and her enamoured passion for capturing the beauty of the ocean with her camera, The ocean but sharks specifically due to their bad reputation additionally, inspired Eugenie to become an ichthyologist and break down some myths around the fear of sharks. Gillian with her view on nature is that there are so many stories to be told and narrated to the world. Then we have filmmaker Gunjan who would through high altitudes and jungles to capture the wildlife. We meet Hana who is determined to fight to preserve the nature of her country, Iraq despite all the difficulties she is facing. Of course, such a book could not exist without mentioning Jane and her work as a primatologist (working with apes and showing their connection to humans).
In the second half of the book, we meet Julie, a conservationist biologist and her love at first sight with a lemur when she was 13. You may know Kirsten Bell as a famous actress from Holywood but she is also one of the proponents of the 'Adopt, Don't shop' mantra. She absolutely is a dog person! Then we have Kristen and her love for bats whilst we learn that everything that shaped her career started as a Girl Scout project. So inspiring! Reptiles are not as loved as other cuter and fluffier species but that did not stop Laura from becoming a herpetologist and seeing their beauty reflected in her eyes. We then meet Leela, an expert in lions who tries to reintroduce this species that has become extinct in parts of the world such as Egypt where she is from. Another conservationist called Maria loves hard-scaled pangolins and other endangered species and speaks for them! We then continue with Olivia and her butterflies. She is a pollinator activist. How freaking cool is that of a job description???
In Nigeria, we meet Rachel, another conservationist, working mainly around the Niger Delta area. Saengduean is a person where basically animals go for retirement to live their last days on this Earth as well as animals that just need recovery from abuse, trauma and/or injury. Meet Sami a talented artist that brings beauty to any peculiar animal you may think of. Exhibit designer, Sue, recreates habits in zoos inspired by their homelands for the animals to feel more at home. Temple, an autistic woman, decided to take action and educate people about her condition as well as talk about how important it is to address farm animal welfare. Last but not least, we learn about Tolani, a veterinarian who has even founded an animal hospital to host both 2 and 4-legged creatures.
I cannot wait to teach my daughter about all these women through these books and inspire her to become one with nature. :) Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!