Herd of puppets to trek 20,000km to highlight urgency of climate crisis

Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create visceral engagement' with issues caused by climate emergency

The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness about the plight of the refugee crisis in Europe, hope their next project - a herd of animal puppets going on a 20,000km trek - will start a new global conversation about the climate crisis.

Amir Nizar Zuabi, the Palestinian artist who helped launch the Amal project, said The Herd - which will tour through several African and European cities and feature dozens of puppets - will be a soft, beautiful evocation to think differently" about the climate crisis.