extinct in the wild

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I've been thinking of using generic ostrich in lieu of Arabian ostrich, and I'm wondering if something similar has been done in zoos already. Afterall, many large animal species exant today, such as lions and leopards, historically had much wider distributions than today.

The zoo's all-female herd of six oryx grazing, as seen from the south side of their enclosure (April 29th, 2023).

Four of the zoo’s all-female herd of six scimitar-horned oryx, basking in the brief winter sun (Taken January 20th, 2023).

Today, I randomly stumbled on this article, which explained that the African Penguin may be extinct in the wild in as soon as 3 years. This is admittedly the low end of the estimated time range for when they will go extinct, but the fact was still really shocking to me. I had no clue that the...

The past few weeks I have been working on quite a large project. The aims of the project were thus: To, with some degree of accuracy, determine the percentages of the species found in zoos of different levels of endangerment. To, with the data obtained to achieve the above bullet point, compare...

Hey, Does anyone know of places to find EW species? I know of just a few: Scimitar Horned Oryx: African Lion Safari Guam Kingfisher: Milwaukee County Zoo

The Christmas island Blue-tailed Skink (Cryptoblepharus egerniae) is a small skink endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. In the past the skink was common in large numbers in the settled areas and had also been observed in rainforest clearings elsewhere on the island. In 2010, after...

Hi everybody, I'm currently building a database of all "missing", recently extinct and extinct in the wild species. I would also like to add pictures to go with the text so that people can actually see the species that we have lost. For extinct species, I can only upload pictures for which the...