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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

A Tropical Triumph: Saving the Jamaican Iguana

15 February, 2020 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: biodiversity, extinction, Jamaica, Jamaican Iguana, Lazarus, Lost and Found, rediscovery, Wildlife

Stumbling Upon an “Extinct” Rodent on the Edge

21 October, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: animal, biodiversity, conservation, Dipodomys gravipes, extinction, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, Quentin kangaroo rat, rediscovery, species rediscovery

Playing Hide and Go Seek in Kalalau Valley

12 July, 2019 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: extinction, hawaii, Hibiscadelphus woodii, Lazarus, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, plant, rediscovery, species, species rediscovery

Hunting for a Harlequin – rediscovering the Jambato harlequin frog

25 June, 2019 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Ecuador, extinction, frog, Jambato harlequin frog, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, rediscovery, species rediscovery

Meet the Lost & Found team: Elliot Connor

18 May, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: extinction, Lazarus, Lost & Found, species rediscovery

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

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