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species rediscovery

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

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

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

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

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 Trouble with Tortoises: How a Galapagos giant was rediscovered after more than a century

31 March, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Galapagos, Giant Tortoise, island, rediscovery, species 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

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