In New Zealand, the return of wild takahē populations marks a cautiously celebrated conservation victory, and the return of one of the world’s rarest creatures. The birds had been formally declared extinct in 1898, their already-reduced population devastated by the arrival of European settlers’ animal companions: stoats, cats, ferrets and rats. After their rediscovery in 1948, their numbers are now at about 500, growing at about 8% a year.

  • magnetosphere
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    51 year ago

    That’s very, very cool!

    I think I’ve read a story or two like this before - where a creature once thought extinct is found again. Does anyone know about how many times or how frequently this has happened?

      • @Devi@beehaw.org
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        21 year ago

        The zanzibar leopard is a good one. Quite pretty too. Millers Grizzled Languar is another.