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News
Christmas Island Pipistrelle declared extinct by IUCN
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 […]
Species & Subspecies
Raphus cucullatus (Dodo)
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. […]
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Heredia Robber Frog rediscovered
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 […]
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Hawaiian Crows released into the wild and brought back after deaths
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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Last Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog died
The last known Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum), a male known as “Toughie” estimated to be about 12 years old, has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. In 2005, during a rescue mission a […]