Animals in the Forest

<p>Fans of the children's literature classic <em>Watership Down</em> will be glad that animals have a voice again.</p><p><strong><em>Extinction habitat destruction deforestation... </em>How would you feel if your home was flattened to make space for others?</strong></p><p><strong>Countless wild animals great and small experience this every day.</strong></p><p><strong>This is their story.</strong></p><p><em>Dakota the Deer</em> <em>Flint the Fox</em> <em>Bentley the Bat</em> and other animals live in a forest co-existing in an uneasy truce with some nearby humans. Then a strange animal <em>Whanganui the Weasel</em> arrives having fled something too frightening to speak of. Just as he fears the humans come and their actions threaten to destroy the animals' lives.</p><p>When one of the animals goes missing it's the final straw. The animals decide to do something they've never attempted before. As they're swept up in a terrible chain of events they can't control will they have what it takes to defeat forces they have no name for?</p><p><em><strong>More than an eco story:</strong></em> The animal characters honour young environmental activists nature conservation campaigns and indigenous tribes across the globe including the <em>Dakota Access Pipe Line water protectors in the USA</em> and the <em>Moxateteu uncontacted tribe in the Amazon</em>. These and related green issues with website links are included at the end of the book so readers come away armed with knowledge.</p><p><strong>Can a story save the Earth? Read it to find out.</strong></p>