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South African adventure

A natural inspiration
Lauren St John reveals how an encounter with a white rhino influenced her storytelling

Growing up in Zimbabwe, I from being the belligerent modern-day
was obsessed with animals dinosaur of myth, they have a beautiful,
and especially with saving intelligent spirit that shines through. Set in South Africa, this award-
them, but my view of I set Operation Rhino in the Free State’s winning series about friendship and
rhinos was a bit like Martine’s at the Golden Gate National Park, because the saving endangered species is sure to
start of Operation Rhino; if they have a landscape is as ancient and beautiful as captivate readers. All the other books
in the series are available now at
personality, it’s very well hidden. That the rhinos themselves. I set it in South www.waterstones.com
changed on a visit to Shamwari Game Africa specifically because it is both on the

Reserve in the Eastern Cape, where I front line of poaching – 1,175 have been

spent ages watching two rhinos. At first, killed in 2016 alone – and at the cutting
they were on their feet and bristling, edge of saving rhinos. Wildlife vets such
warning us off. But when they realised we as Will Fowlds and the Rhino Orphanage

weren’t a threat, they lay down and dozed. staff perform miracles daily.
I was taken aback by how vulnerable they Don’t save rhinos because you think you
seemed. I have since been walking with should. Save them knowing beneath their
wild orphans. Up close, I realised that far suit of armour beats a huge heart.

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