It is with great sadness that Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the Dvůr Králové Zoo announce that Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, age 45, died at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 28 December 2017 the Beaverpond Marstonia (Marstonia castor), a freshwater snail from Georgia, is extinct. The announcement is in response to a 2010 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity […]
The Caribbean Monk Seal was found in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the west Atlantic Ocean. It had been recorded from numerous islands, reefs and cays, […]
The Search for Lost Species initiative is today celebrating the incredible and unexpected rediscovery of the first of its top 25 “most wanted” lost species, the Jackson’s Climbing Salamander (Bolitoglossa jacksoni), lost to science since its discovery in 1975. The rediscovery […]
The very first Search for Lost Species expedition got underway 23 October 2017 with a quest to northern Myanmar to find the pink-headed duck, missing since 1949. Intrepid British explorer Richard Thorns, who has dedicated […]
Five young Hawaiian Crows or ‘alalā, two females and three males, were released into Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve (NAR) on the Island of Hawai‘i on 11 October 2017. This second group of birds joins […]
The new update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (version 2017-2) declares the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) – a bat species endemic to Australia’s Christmas Island – as Extinct. The population of this species rapidly […]
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was one of the first, if not the first, species to be recognized as having been driven to extinction by man. The dodo was a large flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius. It was last reported in 1662 but may have persisted until the 1690s. […]
The Heredia Robber Frog (Craugastor escoces), which had not been observed since 1986 and was declared extinct in 2004 by the IUCN (Bolaños & Chaves 2004), has been rediscovered. Gilbert Alvarado Barboza, a researcher with […]
A group of five young male Hawaiian Crows or ‘Alalā, a bird species that has been extinct in the wild since 2002, were released into the protected Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve on 14 December […]
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