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Aneeshwar Kunchala, youngest columnist and wildlife champion
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Dec 16, 2024
Meet Aneeshwar Kunchala, the youngest newspaper columnist and documentary presenter in the world. At just eight years old, Aneeshwar is already making waves with his passionate efforts to protect wildlife, from his first short videos to his inspiring articles.
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Meet Anishwa Kunjala, the youngest
newspaper columnist in the world
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At just eight years old, he's already making headlines. And let's not
forget, he also holds the record for the youngest documentary presenter
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This afternoon, he's presenting his
latest column to the editor of First News
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But first, how did you get started,
Anishwa? So how it all started
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was really simple. The day that I came
back from school, I told my dad about
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I want to help protect animals because I've seen
this whale that died because of plastic pollution
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And then my dad, because he's really
good at photography and making videos
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he said, why don't we do some short videos
together? And that was the start of it all
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So hi guys, got it in my hand. So let me just
put it in here with the other ones, okay
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We did really short videos about bees and
even swans, one of my personal favourites
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all of them were amazing and they were
a big hit. Then I got BBC to also see me
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and they thought that it would be amazing if
I got to meet Steve Batchell, my real hero
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And then I got to do an amazing entire
documentary about how we can protect our wildlife
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and then it started building up and building
up even more until I'm here with all of you
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I was super happy about that So the column that I doing today is about the blue marlin an amazing
fish which is super fast And what I trying to do with this column is to inspire young children
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all around the world to love amazing
animals just like the blue marlin
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From presenter to columnist, our young
hero's resume is growing faster than he is
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With a pen in one hand and a paintbrush, in the other, Anishwa enhances
his articles with colourful depictions of the creatures he champions
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I absolutely love to paint animals and these
are a few of my amazing work that I did
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The first one that I'm going to show is off. The Lima Leaf Frog is an amazing
animal that is a frog and it jumps off from tree to tree and is an amazing climber
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The Himalayan Monal. This is a male,
but the females are a lot more dull
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My incredible hummingbird painting. Hummingbirds are incredible
pollinators. They are super important for their habitat that they live in
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So I never got to meet Sir David Attenborough in
person, but I did actually get a letter from him
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and these amazing words of advice that he said are, Try your best
and you will perceive your path that you know that you need to do
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I also met Rishi Sunak, one of the Prime
Ministers, and I can't believe I got to meet them
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And they are protecting nature in their own special way I asked Mr Prime Minister
if I could go to COP28 and spread my message so fingers trust he might say yes
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All we have to do is continuously doing our
small bit to try and protect our wildlife
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You don't have to do big things. All you have to do
is do your tiny little bit to make a huge difference
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Well, I feel really excited about seeing how
the editor would feel about my newest column
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I think she would really enjoy it, and it's telling about
the characteristics and why we should protect the animal
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Steady on Anishwa, you have to
talk to the writing team first
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Anishua, thank you so much for
sending over the wonderful Blue Marlin
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I thought it was fantastic. I
mean, the fun facts were super fun
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And as Sophia said, the fun facts are really exciting. I really like them. We just
have to think about our audience, so we're like kind of aimed for 7 to 14 year worlds
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It's quite good to keep them nice and short and simple
and it's really kind of easy to understand language
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Is that like another word that we could use
to sort of explain what temperate order means
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Probably. Good word. Perfect. Right, let's
get it across to design then, shall we
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Yep, come on. Let's go. That was
exactly like the one that I did
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Been flared up and mouth open. Everything's
the exact same except it's not
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not in the water. Pressure's on now.
And maybe you can enlarge the size
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Yeah that looks great Yeah So are you happy with this image Yep Very happy Cool With his
heart racing like a blue marlin Anishwa approaches the editor Will his articles sink or swim
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Hi Anishua. Always good to see you.
How are you? I'm good. How are you
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I'm good, thank you very much. And I've just been
looking at your columns. So tell me about it this week
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So this time it's the Blue Marlin, an
amazing, really large, super fast fish
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How do you choose? Which animals you're going to
feature each week? I'd choose a super cool animal
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that's on the top of my head. Last time it was
a platopus and this time it's a blue marlin
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That's really good. I think this one is
really interesting and I like the way Dan
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the designer was telling me that you suggested we
had a blue background because it's a aquatic animal
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and like last time it was brown for the
earth because it was a mammal on land
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So next time I'm doing their incredible capybara
even though they look really chubby and fat
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They are incredible swimmers and they
can swim really well. They're huge
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Oh, well, I look forward to reading that next week. I always
learn so much from you, Anishwa, and so do all our readers
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So now it's time to send it off to press, I think. Yep. So let's
go. Hi, I'm Anishwa, and this over here is my blue Marling journal
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Isn't it incredible? With Nikki, the editor's final nod of approval,
this Guinness World Records title holder can take a moment to celebrate
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but knowing Anishwa, relaxation
is probably not on the agenda
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