Kirsten Everett Archives - Nikela: Helping People Saving Wildlife

Fast Forward Fifty Years: What’s Happened to the Rhino?

Oct 1, 2013 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: Animal Poaching, conservation, endangered, Illegal trade, rhino, rhino calf, rhino poaching, Volunteers, Wildlife Trafficking Tagged: dinosaur, extinct, fifty years, grandson, Granny, Kirsten Everett, rhino, rhino calf, volunteer

Award winning writer, Kirsten Everett, imagines herself a grandmother, her grandson is asking tough questions about the now extinct rhino. Kirsten has become a regular blog story writer for us. You may have read “Poacher Attack: Through the Eyes of a Rhino Calf” and “A South African Student Pleads to Save Her Country’s Rhino“. The former is being illustrated by Christy Underwood (“Frank and the Rhino Horn“) in preparation for publishing as a book and video. And now journey into the future with Kirsten…. The year 2065 In 50 years so much had changed. Not only did my skin start to form…

Poacher Attack: Through the Eyes of a Rhino Calf

Apr 10, 2013 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: Animal Poaching, endangered, Illegal trade, Nikela Blog, Poaching, rhino, rhino calf, Volunteers, Wildlife Trafficking Tagged: Karen Trendler, Kirsten Everett, poachers, poaching, rhino, rhino calf, rhino orphan, rhino orphanage, traumatized, wildlife trafficking

As the number of rhinos killed by poachers keep rising, more traumatized orphaned calves are in need of care, Karen Trendler, Kirsten Everett. Kirsten Everett takes us on a touching journey as she looks at the horrors of a poacher attack though the eyes of a young rhino calf. My mother and I were contently filling our hungry stomachs when we heard a strange noise. I carried on eating but she smelt the air for unknown scents. I saw the terrified look in her eye before she managed to control it; the unnatural smell meant something. A few minutes later…

A South African Student’s Plea to Save Her Country’s Rhino

Mar 19, 2013 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: endangered, Illegal trade, Nikela Blog, Poaching, rhino, rhino poaching, wildlife lovers, Wildlife Trafficking Tagged: Kirsten Everett, rhino, rhino poaching, save our rhino, South Africa, student, volunteer

Kirsten Everett, begs her country folk and the world help save the Rhinos from extinction due to poaching. “I want to help save rhino. What can I do?” Questions like this arrive at NIKELA quite frequently. This last week we responded to Kirsten, a high school student in South Africa, and invited her to write for us. Kirsten’s plea to save the rhino… Currently people from all over the world come to South Africa to see “The Big 5” (the lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo and the rhino.) But soon there may only be a Big 4. The rhino is being…