Generated by All in One SEO v4.8.8, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Lost & Found - Positive Conservation Storytelling Changing the conversation around conservation ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/) - [Never give up - an unexpected encounter with the lost Hill’s horseshoe bat ](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2022/05/11/the-lost-hills-horseshoe-bat/) - As the Director of the Endangered Species Interventions Program at Bat Conservation International, I spend a lot of my time working with partners worldwide to prevent the extinction of threatened bat species. Like any rare species it is a challenging task but their nocturnal and elusive behaviour can make protecting bats especially challenging. This is - [How to Get the First Photo of an Extinct Monkey](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/08/29/how-to-get-the-first-photo-of-an-extinct-monkey/) - There had been no trace of Bouvier’s red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus bouvieri) since the 1970s. In 2008, after almost 40 years without a recorded sighting, scientists considered it extinct. Bouvier’s red colobus is so rare that if you google it, you won’t find a single picture of it on the internet. This monkey lives in - [Return of the Mac: The resurgence of Macquarie Island and the Subantarctic Bedstraw](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2020/03/19/return-of-the-mac-the-resurgence-of-macquarie-island-and-the-subantarctic-bedstraw/) - Realising that you’ve made a mistake is usually a discouraging experience, but there are a few exceptions to the rule. Realising that a presumed extinct species is still alive and kicking is one of these happy exceptions. Cases of mistaken extinction are more common than you might think, especially if it is a species that - [A Tropical Triumph: Saving the Jamaican Iguana](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2020/02/15/a-tropical-triumph-saving-the-jamaican-iguana/) - The Jamaican Iguana has a dramatic boom-and-bust history. Described as abundant by renowned 17th century Irish aristocrat-cum-naturalist Sir Hans Sloane, only 250 years later it would be all but gone. Endemic to Jamaica, it was declared extinct in 1948, having not been seen alive for eight years. The introduction of the small Indian mongoose was - [Stumbling Upon an “Extinct” Rodent on the Edge](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/10/21/stumbling-upon-an-extinct-rodent-on-the-edge/) - A rat may not sound like an animal worth caring about. But, the San Quentin kangaroo rat (Dipodomys gravipes) is not your ordinary rodent. Kangaroo rats get around by jumping on their two hind legs like miniature, pouch-less kangaroos. One of the 22 species of kangaroo rat, the San Quentin kangaroo rat exists only in - [Who’s Protecting Who? The rediscovery of the Black Softshell turtle in the wild](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/09/14/whos-protecting-who/) - The deity, Vishnu, is a powerful figure within Hinduism. As a formless, abstract being, he is only recognizable in his reincarnations. In one of his appearances, Vishnu appears as half man - half tortoise. This second turtle avatar, referred to as Kurma, helps “restore the cosmic equilibrium” in times of crisis, returning to the earth - [19 years for a moustache](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/07/29/19-years-for-a-moustache/) - The moustached mystery The existence of the Guadalcanal moustached kingfisher, also known as the Mbarikuku, had remained a mystery to scientists for decades. Having a large, orange and white body with a prominent blue “moustache” and blue wings, the species is very showy. However, due to its secluded environment, it has remained poorly documented and - [Playing Hide and Go Seek in Kalalau Valley](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/07/12/playing-hide-and-go-seek-in-kalalau-valley/) - Hawai’i is easily one of the most isolated places on earth, home to over ten thousand species found nowhere else in the world; each arriving as a castaway through the agency of wind and sea thousands of years before human habitation. Without the threat of predation or competition, Hawaii’s native plants and animals developed remarkable - [Hunting for a Harlequin - rediscovering the Jambato harlequin frog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/06/25/hunting-for-a-harlequin-rediscovering-the-jambato-harlequin-frog/) - The Jambato harlequin frog was not always a rarity. Many villagers from the mountains of northern Ecuador remember the days when the little frog was a common sight: dwelling in damp corners of their houses, being prodded by curious children, and not infrequently being ground up for medicine. Amphibian of the Andes The Jambato harlequin - [The Cuban Solenodon: Is it a goat; is it a bird… no it’s a dinosaur rat!](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/06/15/the-cuban-solenodon-is-it-a-goat-is-it-a-bird-no-its-a-dinosaur-rat/) - If I told you that I knew an animal that smelled like a goat, chirped like a bird, kills with its saliva and runs on its tip-toes, you wouldn’t believe me- right? So there’s not a lot of point in my writing this, given that you believe my subject to be completely imaginary. Okay, now - [Meet the Lost & Found team: Elliot Connor](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/05/18/meet-the-lost-found-team-elliot-connor/) - Elliot Connor is a young conservationist living in Sydney, Australia. He is a passionate insect-lover, and his raised fig tree leaf beetles, spiny leaf stick insects, and assassin bugs in addition to his three pygmy bearded dragons at home. He runs a field naturalist group in the Sydney area, and has recently won a competition - [In the Footsteps of Giants: Reviving the legacy of a lost naturalist](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/04/11/in-the-footsteps-of-giants-reviving-the-legacy-of-a-lost-naturalist/) - If you’re reading this (and I’m pretty sure you are), then the chances are that you’ve heard of a bloke by the name of Alfred Russel Wallace. Unfortunately, however, many people haven’t, so you’ll forgive me if I take a minute to explain. The year is 1858 and a small group of white-haired, balding British - [The Trouble with Tortoises: How a Galapagos giant was rediscovered after more than a century](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/03/31/the-trouble-with-tortoises-how-a-galapagos-giant-was-rediscovered-after-more-than-a-century/) - They say that television is a force for evil, corrupting our youth as they while away their days, eyes glued to shining screens. Television is meant to be ‘fake’, ‘artificial’, dominated by corporate powers and indoctrinating children with conforming world views and a profound apathy that grows with each generation. So what would you think - [The tale of the Night Parrot: An epic of rediscovery against the odds](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2019/02/27/the-tale-of-the-night-parrot/) - Parrots are birds. Birds fly. So parrots fly. Simple, right? Well, not exactly. - [Frogs, sex and la(r)va](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2018/07/30/frog-sex-lava/) - The Quito rocket frog (Hyloxalus jacobuspetersi) disappeared before it even got a name. It was first described for science in 1991, but it wasn’t spotted after 1989, with some scientists claiming that no one had laid eyes on them since the 1960’s. Story goes that it was once widespread across the Ecuadorian Andes, jumping from stream - [From saddle cover to media sensation: the story of the yellow-tailed woolly monkey](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2018/03/23/from-saddle-cover-to-media-sensation-the-story-of-the-yellow-tailed-woolly-monkey/) - During his famous 5 year-long expedition to Latin America (1799-1804), Alexander von Humboldt collected, together with his naturalist partner, Aimé Bonpland, around 60,000 plant specimens and an unknown number of animal specimens that we can safely assume to be in the thousands. Some of these specimens were being shown and described to the scientific world - [Un-masking the true identity of the Tasman Booby](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2018/02/23/un-masking-the-true-identity-of-the-tasman-booby/) - Remote volcanic islands, ancient bones, scientists and a species brought back from the dead. It might sound like a Jurassic Park rip-off but this is the story of how a diverse team of researchers un-covered the fate of the Tasman Booby. Unearthing history On Lord Howe Island, the husk of an old volcano 1600km east - [Finding inspiration in rediscovery](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/12/11/finding-inspiration-in-rediscovery/) - I love what I do. I’ve been a naturalist since childhood, and I was lucky enough to grow up in the wilds of west Dorset where the woodlands, coastlines and hills gave me everything I needed to explore my fascination with wildlife and the natural world. In school, the only subject which interested me was - [Now you see it, now you don’t: the troubled tale of the estuarine pipefish](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2018/01/15/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-the-troubled-tale-of-the-estuarine-pipefish/) - 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 - [On the path of the Spreadwing](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/11/16/on-the-path-of-the-spreadwing/) - We were threading on a narrow foot path, running across a rainforest leading to the Adam’s Peak mountain, the most sacred mountain in Sri Lanka and the fourth highest in the country. Our team of five naturalists was ascending the mountain slowly as we were frequently held by interesting animals, beautiful sceneries of forests, mountains - [Searching for the Santa Marta Toro: A tale of a Roach & a Rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/10/15/searching-for-the-santa-marta-toro-a-tale-of-a-roach-a-rat/) - 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 - [Meet the Lost & Found team: Sam Needs](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/10/03/meet-the-lost-found-team-sam-needs/) - Sam Needs is a Welsh writer with a Master's in Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University. He is currently based in Perth, Australia, where he works with the Said Poets Society, a non-profit who help young people to express themselves through storytelling and performance poetry. What interested in the Lost and Found project? I was most - [Searching for the Southern Sea Otter](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/08/18/searching-for-the-southern-sea-otter/) - This is an oldie but goodie for the Lost and Found archives. In a letter dated February 2nd, 1915 to the California Department of Fish and Game, lighthouse keeper John W. Astrom reported on a small southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) population of the coast of Big Sur. Little did Mr. Astrom know that - [Worth losing a finger for: the Anatolian meadow viper](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/07/17/anatolian-meadow-viper/) - The Anatolian meadow viper was always an enigmatic species. It belongs to the same group as many widespread vipers, such as the common adder. However, unlike the common adder, which is distributed across Europe and Northern Asia, the Anatolian meadow viper lives only at the top of the Ciglikara mountain plateau, in south-west Turkey. Since - [Lost and Found](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/04/21/lost-and-found/) - Loss, decline and extinction: some of the most common topics of conversation in the more than 15 years that we have spent talking about nature conservation. It is true that today the natural world faces great threats, but that should not keep us from finding hope in those few stories that can illustrate just how far a passion for nature can take those passionate enough. And who does not love a good adventure? - [Meet the Lost & Found team: Amy Gallagher](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2017/04/21/meet-the-lost-found-team-amy-gallagher/) - Amy Gallagher (also known as Amiluu) is a UK based freelance illustrator, greeting card designer, and comic artist. Her style is playful and charming; often using themes of humour and cheekiness to create engaging imagery. ¬Her other interests lie in food (and lots of it) Tove Jansson, fitness, animation and games. She loves her dog ## Pages - [Home](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/) - [get in touch](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/get-in-touch-2/) - [want to help?](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/want-to-help/) - The Lost and Found project is managed by volunteers, and supported by charities. We are always looking for help, and there is a role for everyone to play. Just use the contact form to get in touch with us! - [thanks to](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/thanks-to/) - our partners who supported the L&F project and made it possible. Please make sure you get to know them. - [about L&F](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/about-lf/) - everything you need to know about the project Talking about nature has frequently become talking about extinction, decline and loss. But it does not have to be. The “Lost and Found” project works to bring to life the inspirational stories of those that never stopped believing and whose passion led them to rewrite the history of the species they so deeply - [FAQs](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/faqs/) - [News](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/45-2/) ## Post Grid - [blog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/post_grid/blog/) ## Species - [Bulmer's Fruit Bat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/bulmers-fruit-bat/) - Unearthing the bat - Sue Bulmer and her fossil The story takes place in Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, one of the most naturally and culturally diverse countries in the world. It has over 800 languages and 1,000 species of birds and mammals, including, as we now know, the Bulmer’s fruit bat. - [Arakan Forest Turtle](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/arakan-forest-turtle/) - They wanted to know more about the forest's animals, so they gave us cameras and asked us to take pictures of the animals we would see each day. In time, we brought them pictures of the cats, snakes, deer, birds and boar that we had hunted. They asked about the Great hornbills, the elephant and - [Golden-Fronted Bower Bird](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/golden-fronted-bower-bird/) - In service to their art, the hat-makers strove to acquire the most exotic and glorious feathers. Across the world, bird specimens would fall from the branches of some distant jungle into the hands of local hunters. They would sell these birds on to local merchants, who sent them off to international traders, who passed them - [Leadbeater's Possum](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/leadbeaters-possum/) - That may not sound that exciting at first, but this possum, a Leadbeater’s possum, was supposed to be extinct. This tiny marsupial, weighing about half as much as a can of coke, was somewhat of an icon to the people of Victoria, Australia. It was first described by western scientists in 1867, and they even - [Bornean Rainbow Toad](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/bornean-rainbow-toad/) - Yet, when they finally emerged from the rainforest, Hallier brought with him a series of drawings of an unusual toad species that they had encountered. A startling and previously undiscovered species. Hallier chose to name it the Bornean rainbow toad. From monochrome sketch to rainbow toad Pui Yong Min examined the drawing again. It was - [Flat Headed Myotis](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/844/) - The bat-trackers of Mexico Joaquín, an archeozoologist from Mexico, made his quest even more difficult by starting in 1998 - two years after the bat was declared officially extinct. Joaquín himself can only say that he was driven by a biologist’s urge to discover, an urge that drove him for six long years. He first - [Red Crested Tree Rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/red-crested-tree-rat/) - A bird collector and his rat The last time anybody had seen this rat was at some point before 1913 - before Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, before World War I, and before anybody had ever really heard of Charlie Chaplin. A specimen was picked up by Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, one of the greatest and most - [Romer's Tree Frog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/romers-tree-frog/) - By 1952, when British veteran John D. Romer found himself exploring them, they had been emptied of all munitions and had filled up with drowned leaves, moss and the staccato call of curious, fingertip-sized frogs. The frogs were tiny, barely 2.5 cm in length and bore suction cups upon their thin toes, giving them the - [Fiji Petrel](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/fiji-petrel/) - 129 years later, the weather on Gau was poor. The wind had stirred up the rain and the rain had driven the locals out of Dick Watling’s camp upon the hill. The campfire had also given up on that night’s expedition, leaving Watling hungry, isolated, and undefeated. He knew that, inside his tent, there was - [Noisy Scrub-bird](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/noisy-scrub-bird/) - Working together, the birds forced sticks in the small gap between the Earth and sky and, all at once, began to lift it up. They carried it higher and higher, flying for the very first time. The sky began to grow lighter and lighter until, eventually, it split open. It hung high above the Earth, - [Bocourt's Terrific Skink](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/bocourts-terrific-skink/) - The sea is far away, but I hear it. And I smell something. Not worms. Not insects, spiders or birds or eggs or rats. Smells different. Smell meat. Smells meat so I want it. It looks like meat too, but not animal. It's piled up in the clearing. No shape, just meat. And different smell. - [Parsley fern](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/parsley-fern/) - Mid-Atlantic Even when Charles Darwin visited what would become known as Ascension Island, he noted there was little to see. But despite the fact this scrap of British territory marooned in the tropical Atlantic was not well regarded, it has spawned a host of new species over its geologically young life. At least ten plants - [Franciscan manzanita](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/franciscan-manzanita/) - If you are going to San Francisco.. In 2009, after just crossing the bridge on his way back from a climate change conference at which he gave a talk about the vital imperative to prevent species from going extinct, botanist Daniel Gluesenkamp looked out of the window of his car. His eyes settled on what - [Fairy Lantern](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/fairy-lantern/) - Beccari, the botanist Bending down to get a closer look, he took a few sketches of the bizarre flower, which he would later come to call a “fairy lantern”, and moved on to explore the rest of the forest noting what he saw as he went. The year was 1866, and not a single scientist - [Crambione cooki](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/crambione-cooki/) - Then in the summer of 1999/2000, Puk Scivyer photographed a jellyfish on a beach near Mooloolaba, on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Scivyer, an aquarist at the Underwater World aquarium in Queensland, suspected that this was no ordinary find. She sent her photo to Lisa-Ann Gershwin, an expert on Australian jellyfish. Gershwin compared Scivyer’s photo and remarks - [Mangarahara cichlid](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/mangarahara-cichlid/) - Stopping extinction in its tracks Zimmerman is Chief Curator at London Zoo’s aquarium and chairs an advisory group on fish and invertebrates for the European Association for Zoos and Aquaria. In 2011 and 2012, he ran a survey to find out what Malagasi fish from Madagascar were held at European zoos and aquariums. What species - [Basilewsky’s cranefly](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/basilewskys-cranefly/) - A stroke of luck Soon after the encounter, Fowler got a job at the St. Helena National Trust. Their work on local conservation and education projects suited Fowler, who loved to roam the wilds of the island where she was born and raised. She soon discovered that her other passion – photography – was also - [Pycnandra longiflora](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/pycnandra-longiflora/) - Welcome to Gatope This was not for want of trying. Jérôme Munzinger, from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Marseille scoured the forests of New Caledonia in search of this long-lost plant, returning, along with colleagues, to where he thought it may first have been collected, the Gatope Peninsular. Ever hopeful that they - [Coral Tree](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/coral-tree/) - Chasing corals With spectacularly bright red flowers branching off from a central stem, it is little wonder that the tree, which actually belongs to the legume family, was to become more commonly known as the coral tree. Fulfilling a life-long desire to visit East Africa, Schrieben finally arrived in what was then Tanganyika Territory, but - [Coelacanth](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/coelacanth/) - On December 22, 1938, Courtenay-Latimer interrupted her work at the Museum of East London, South Africa, in response to a call from the docks, and made the discovery of a lifetime. But she only got the call at all because of a childhood obsession with an island. Bird Island, off the southern coast of Africa, - [Cave Splayfooted Salamander](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/cave-splayfooted-salamander/) - Searching for a pinky-size splayed footed salamander Sean Rovito was a stranger, but the townspeople greeted him kindly. Still, he was a stranger and he asked strange questions. “Can you tell me about the Cave Splay-footed salamander?” he said. The townspeople said they did not know the cave salamander. “What does it look like?” they - [Lord Howe Island stick insect](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/lord-howe-island-stick-insect/) - In the late 1990s, Carlile and Priddel worked for the conservation authority in New South Wales, Australia. Part of their remit was to deliberate on requests for expeditions to climb Balls Pyramid, the tallest volcanic stack in the world; a ragged rock that rises almost vertically out of the sea. For a combination of safety - [Woolly Flying Squirrel](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/woolly-flying-squirrel/) - The squirrel-y haven of northern Pakistan Having his two-year long search eventually end that easily was almost unbelievable, especially considering that the four-foot long woolly flying squirrel was meant to be long extinct. Peter, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, had spent months of research in northern Pakistan, setting up live traps (intended to catch, - [South Island Takahē](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/south-island-takahe/) - Orbell wondered about the animal that had made the sounds, as he very often did. He considered all the places where it might be hiding now. The ground here was covered by two feet of grass which flowed down the steep hillsides, towards the lake in the basin of the valley. Orbell considered conducting a - [Bermuda Petrel](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/species/bermuda-petrel/) - The Spanish never settled Bermuda. They would, however, anchor in the natural harbour (known today as Castle Harbour) which the islands formed. In 1609, British colonists (unimpressed by Spanish superstition) arrived upon the islands. Though they found no trace of devils, life on the islands proved extremely trying for them. Famines were frequent. 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[sea otter](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/sea-otter/) - [marine mammal](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/marine-mammal/) - [Enhydra lutris nereis](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/enhydra-lutris-nereis/) - [southern sea otter](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/southern-sea-otter/) - [Big Sur](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/big-sur/) - [Elkhorn Slough](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/elkhorn-slough/) - [United States](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/united-states/) - [Sam Needs](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/sam-needs/) - [Colombia](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/colombia/) - [Santa Marta Toro](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/santa-marta-toro/) - [Sierra Nevada Santa Marta](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/sierra-nevada-santa-marta/) - [Endemic](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/endemic/) - [Rodent](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/rodent/) - [Rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/rat/) - [Red creasted tree rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/red-creasted-tree-rat/) - [species rediscovery](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/species-rediscovery/) - [Nikki Roach](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/nikki-roach/) - [Sri Lanka](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/sri-lanka/) - [drangonfly](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/drangonfly/) - [Peak Wilderness Mountain](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/peak-wilderness-mountain/) - [damselfly](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/damselfly/) - [insect](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/insect/) - [Amila Prasanna Sumanapala](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/amila-prasanna-sumanapala/) - [species](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/species/) - [Diamond spider](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/diamond-spider/) - [Noisy Scrub-bird](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/noisy-scrub-bird/) - [Jane Laurie](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/jane-laurie/) - [Wildlife](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/wildlife/) - [Art](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/art/) - [Laotian rock rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/laotian-rock-rat/) - [ivory-billed woodpecker](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/ivory-billed-woodpecker/) - [pipefish](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/pipefish/) - [South Africa](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/south-africa/) - [Seahorse](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/seahorse/) - [Lily Stanton](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/lily-stanton/) - [Louw Claassens](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/louw-claassens/) - [Knysna Basin Project](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/knysna-basin-project/) - [Africa](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/africa/) - [fish](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/fish/) - [Tasman booby](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/tasman-booby/) - [New Zealand](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/new-zealand/) - [Lord Howe Island](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/lord-howe-island/) - [Genetics](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/genetics/) - [DNA](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/dna/) - [Peru](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/peru/) - [amazon](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/amazon/) - [primate](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/primate/) - [yellow-tailed woolly monkey](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/yellow-tailed-woolly-monkey/) - [Henrique Bravo Gouveia](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/henrique-bravo-gouveia/) - [Neotropic Primate Conservation](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/neotropic-primate-conservation/) - [biodiversity](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/biodiversity/) - [frog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/frog/) - [amphibian](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/amphibian/) - [biodiversity conservation](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/biodiversity-conservation/) - [Quito rocket frog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/quito-rocket-frog/) - [Balsa de los Sapos](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/balsa-de-los-sapos/) - [Cotopaxi](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/cotopaxi/) - [Ecuador](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/ecuador/) - [chytrid fungus](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/chytrid-fungus/) - [reproduction](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/reproduction/) - [Andes](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/andes/) - [Night Parrot](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/night-parrot/) - [Australia](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/australia/) - [Bird](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/bird/) - [conservation](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/conservation/) - [Galapagos](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/galapagos/) - [Giant Tortoise](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/giant-tortoise/) - [island](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/island/) - [Indonesia](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/indonesia/) - [Wallace’s Giant Bee](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/wallaces-giant-bee/) - [Alfred Russell Wallace](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/alfred-russell-wallace/) - [Lost & Found](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/lost-found/) - [Lazarus](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/lazarus/) - [Solenodon](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/solenodon/) - [Cuba](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/cuba/) - [Caribbean](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/caribbean/) - [Jambato harlequin frog](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/jambato-harlequin-frog/) - [hawaii](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/hawaii/) - [Hibiscadelphus woodii](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/hibiscadelphus-woodii/) - [plant](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/plant/) - [Guadalcanal](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/guadalcanal/) - [kingfisher](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/kingfisher/) - [solomon islands](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/solomon-islands/) - [moustached](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/moustached/) - [Bouvier’s red colobus\](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/bouviers-red-colobus/) - [Monkey](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/monkey/) - [Congo](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/congo/) - [Extinct](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/extinct/) - [Expedition](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/expedition/) - [Bushmeat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/bushmeat/) - [Wildlife Conservation Society](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/wildlife-conservation-society/) - [Black Softshell turtle](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/black-softshell-turtle/) - [India](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/india/) - [Quentin kangaroo rat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/quentin-kangaroo-rat/) - [Dipodomys gravipes](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/dipodomys-gravipes/) - [Jamaican Iguana](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/jamaican-iguana/) - [Jamaica](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/jamaica/) - [Macquarie Island](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/macquarie-island/) - [Subantarctic Bedstraw](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/subantarctic-bedstraw/) - [Galium antarcticum](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/galium-antarcticum/) - [Antartic](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/antartic/) - [Polar](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/polar/) - [Nyungwe](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/nyungwe/) - [Rwanda](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/rwanda/) - [Rhinolophus hilli](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/rhinolophus-hilli/) - [Hill’s horseshoe bat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/hills-horseshoe-bat/) - [Bat](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/bat/) - [International](https://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/tag/international/)