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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

How to Get the First Photo of an Extinct Monkey

29 August, 2019 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Bouvier’s red colobus\, Bushmeat, Congo, Expedition, Extinct, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, Monkey, rediscovery, species, Wildlife Conservation Society

19 years for a moustache

29 July, 2019 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Bird, Guadalcanal, kingfisher, Lost and Found, moustached, rediscovery, solomon islands, species

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

The Cuban Solenodon: Is it a goat; is it a bird… no it’s a dinosaur rat!

15 June, 2019 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: biodiversity, Caribbean, Cuba, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, mammal, rediscovery, Solenodon, 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

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