#RohanCleave - Leah and Miani chat with Rohan Cleave, author of Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, which received the CBCA 2016 Eve Powell Honour Award for Information Books. Rohan is a zookeeper at Melbourne Zoo, where he’s been involved in the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect recovery breeding program since 2003. Rohan now manages the phasmid recovery program at Melbourne Zoo and also somehow managed to find time to write a book about it! 'Phasmid’ is the amazing true story of the Lord Howe Island Phasmid, or Stick Insect, which was believed to be extinct for nearly 80 years, until a small group of phasmids were rediscovered on Balls Pyramid, a volcanic outcrop 23km off the coast of Australia’s Lord Howe Island. News of their unbelievable survival made headlines around the world and ignited an extraordinary conservation effort to save this remarkable invertebrate. With a captivating narrative by Rohan and stunning watercolour illustrations by renowned artist Coral Tulloch, Phasmid is a positive story about one species' incredible survival in a time of worldwide species decline. Check out this great podcast to find out about one of the most exciting success stories of the conservation of a species once believed to be extinct and gone for ever!
http://www.zoo.org.au/melbourne/animals/lord-howe-island-stick-insect
image courtesy of Melbourne Zoo - Rohan introduces Sir Richard Attenborough to a phasmid at Melbourne Zoo
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