animal protagonists based on a fairy tale environmental kids
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Hachidori no Hito Shizuku: Watashi ni Dekiru Koto, The Story of the Hummingbird, ハチドリのひとしずく 私にできること
An adaptation of an Andes folk tale. It is meant to encourage children to help the environment. One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was suddenly engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird. This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief