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Now you see it, now you don’t: the troubled tale of the estuarine pipefish

15 January, 2018 by Lost & Found 3 Comments

The estuarine pipefish, has been playing a frightening game of hide-and-seek for decades.  Not only was this pipefish thought to be extinct once, it was feared to have disappeared from the world a second time… only to be discovered yet again by scientists. You may wonder, just as we did, why this species has been […]

Filed Under: First Person Tagged With: Africa, fish, Knysna Basin Project, Lily Stanton, Lost and Found, Louw Claassens, pipefish, rediscovery, Seahorse, South Africa, species rediscovery, storytelling

Searching for the Santa Marta Toro: A tale of a Roach & a Rat

15 October, 2017 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

Off the coast of northern Colombia lies a formidable mountain, which towers over the small Caribbean city of Santa Marta. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) is the tallest coastal mountain range in the world, rising from sea level to over 5,700 m. Older than the Andes, the Sierra Nevada’s dramatic topography has made […]

Filed Under: First Person, Lost & Found Tagged With: Colombia, conservation optimism, earth optimism, Endemic, environmental conservation, extinction, Lost and Found, Nikki Roach, Rat, Red creasted tree rat, rediscovery, Rodent, Santa Marta Toro, Sierra Nevada Santa Marta, species rediscovery, storytelling

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