Walk the footsteps of this stranger: Plight of the Pangolin

Who would have thought that one has to pay a price for being exceptional? Of all the 6,400 species of mammals we have, pangolins are the only ones adorned with scales. Nick-named the ‘walking artichoke’, a pangolin has a delightful way of moving and curls into a ball when threatened. However, its distinctive scales and naïve disposition are fueling their poaching, making them the highest trafficked mammals in the world. They have become the victims of human superstition and icons of the illegal wildlife trade.

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‘Walk the Footsteps of a Stranger’ is a triptych of accordion books alongside other fun collaterals that give an idea of this wonderous creature, the myths and fabricated stories around them and feature the sheer atrocity behind the illegal wildlife trade. One cannot care about something that they’ve failed to understand in the first place and little about things that don’t directly pertain to us. Even if one does not have a soft spot for nature, this project intends to provoke them to contemplate the boundaries of human desires.