Faculty of Art
Photography
Cain Colt
Protecting Our Furry Friends
Photography
"Protecting Our Furry Friends" is an educational colouring book that pairs wildlife photography with colouring pages and activities to provide children with an interactive resource to learn about and contribute to wildlife conservation.
“Protecting Our Furry Friends is an educational children’s colouring book, featuring my own wildlife photography, that teaches kids proper etiquette for interacting with wildlife and encourages them to explore and protect local conservation areas. The overall goal of this work was to use my photography to create an interactive resource for children to learn ways they can contribute to wildlife conservation and hopefully help them cope with any eco-anxiety they may be experiencing.Eco-anxiety is defined as a persistent fear of environmental destruction caused by direct experience with climate change or exposure to information about climate change through media. I, myself, experience eco-anxiety and after witnessing huge spikes of human activity at local conservation areas greatly impact the wildlife, I decided to contribute to combating environmental change and eco-anxiety by using my photography to educate others. Protecting Our Furry Friends is an expansion on my previous work, Wildlife Conservation in the Durham Region: How to Behave in Wildlife-Human Interactions, which advocates for proper practice when engaging with local wildlife. However, this work is aimed more towards adults and eco-anxiety is a big threat to young minds which is why I have created an engaging book for children that could help kids feel like there is something they can do to save the environment.”
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Cain Colt
Photography
“For my thesis project, I have created "Protecting Our Furry Friends", an educational colouring book that teaches kids proper etiquette for interacting with wildlife and encourages them to explore and...” [More]
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