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Never give up – an unexpected encounter with the lost Hill’s horseshoe bat 

11 May, 2022 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Bat, conservation, conservation optimism, environmental conservation, extinction, Hill’s horseshoe bat, International, Lost and Found, Nyungwe, rediscovery, Rhinolophus hilli, Rwanda, species, species rediscovery, storytelling

Who’s Protecting Who? The rediscovery of the Black Softshell turtle in the wild

14 September, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: animal, Black Softshell turtle, conservation, conservation optimism, India, species rediscovery, Wildlife

The tale of the Night Parrot: An epic of rediscovery against the odds

27 February, 2019 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

Parrots are birds. Birds fly. So parrots fly. Simple, right? Well, not exactly.

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Australia, Bird, conservation, conservation optimism, extinction, Lost and Found, Night Parrot, rediscovery

Frogs, sex and la(r)va

30 July, 2018 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

Quito Rocket frog

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 […]

Filed Under: First Person, L&F Team Tagged With: amphibian, Andes, Balsa de los Sapos, biodiversity conservation, chytrid fungus, conservation optimism, Cotopaxi, earth optimism, Ecuador, extinction, frog, Henrique Bravo Gouveia, Lost and Found, Quito rocket frog, rediscovery, reproduction, species rediscovery, storytelling

From saddle cover to media sensation: the story of the yellow-tailed woolly monkey

23 March, 2018 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: First Person, Lost & Found Tagged With: amazon, biodiversity, conservation optimism, earth optimism, environmental conservation, extinction, Henrique Bravo Gouveia, Lost and Found, Neotropic Primate Conservation, Peru, primate, rediscovery, species rediscovery, storytelling, yellow-tailed woolly monkey

Un-masking the true identity of the Tasman Booby

23 February, 2018 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: First Person Tagged With: conservation optimism, DNA, earth optimism, extinction, Genetics, Lord Howe Island, Lost and Found, New Zealand, rediscovery, species, storytelling, Tasman booby

Finding inspiration in rediscovery

11 December, 2017 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: First Person Tagged With: Art, conservation optimism, Diamond spider, earth optimism, environmental conservation, extinction, ivory-billed woodpecker, Jane Laurie, Laotian rock rat, Lost and Found, Noisy Scrub-bird, rediscovery, storytelling, Wildlife

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

Meet the Lost & Found team: Sam Needs

3 October, 2017 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: conservation optimism, earth optimism, endangered, environmental conservation, extinction, Lost and Found, Sam Needs, storytelling

Worth losing a finger for: the Anatolian meadow viper

17 July, 2017 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: First Person, Lost & Found Tagged With: Anatolian meadow viper, animal, animal conservation, conservation optimism, earth optimism, endangered, environmental conservation, extinction, Lost and Found, Oleksandr Zinenko, rediscovery, reptile, snake, storytelling, threatened, Turkey, viper, Vipera anatolica

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