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Rhino occupy a unique part of the food chain and wide niches in
specific ecosystems in which they have developed their own
behaviour patterns and interactions with other species. They form
an essential part of the animal kingdom and their loss would have
significant ramifications for other dependant flora and fauna. The
large numbers of rhino orphans and the loss of pregnant females are
decimating wild rhino populations. This decline is mainly due to
poaching for their horns that are made of keratin and which have no
proven medical benefit to humans. Greedy markets in China, Vietnam
and Yemen, and criminal syndicates offer extremely high prices for
rhino horn making it more valuable than gold. Whilst tackling the
poachers head on is essential, it is sadly not enough and vigorous
education programmes need to be put in place to inform people of
the ecological, economic, aesthetic and touristic value of rhino.
This book is dedicated to the plight all rhino species face
including museum specimens and fossils.
Excerpt from HOW THE WIND DEMON BEEN SAVE' THE WORLD
______________________________________________ "Terra Earth is
sleeping now in Father Sun's warm embrace. Her Magnetosphere bends
against the Solar Wind like a dragon's armored back, whiskers and
tail sweeping outward, beyond the orbit of the Tombstone Moon; her
great claws grip the planetary poles and down them elementary
particles flow to burn in the upper atmosphere like curtains of
cold fire. Terra knows the meaning of separation, of death. Even
now her tail brushes across the face of her dead sister. There is
no quickening response anymore, only the faint magnetic ghost of
fair Luna's long departed soul, and her dusty skull orbiting
silently in space." ______________________________________________
In this novel of magical realism, the Wind Demon makes a valiant
attempt to save the world and everything in it from humanity's twin
cancers of environmental hubris and endless warfare. His allies
include homeless children, bag ladies, certain tribes on the
Molecular level, an ancient samurai sword, post-apocalyptic
trashcan gladiators, an artist and part-time witch, a cook. His
adversary is a corporation of elite players in media, military,
government and industry bent on building a secret, high-risk--and
highly profitable--hot fusion power plant in lower Manhattan. The
Wind's battleground is a cordoned-off section of the Lower East
Side now dubbed "District of Containment" and currently used as an
indefinite holding area for dissidents and enemies of the state. "I
mean," figured Sideswipe, "you take too much shit away from people,
they got nothing to lose, am I right? Pretty soon law an' order,
even civilization as we know it-it don't matter to 'em no more."
How the Wind Demon Been Save' the World is the story of a
leaderless and highly diverse band of disenfranchised human beings
who occupy the ghetto that confines them, and transform it into
their own version of the American dream. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM
THE WIND.
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