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"De-extincting" species is a distraction

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A Chinese pangolin is seen reaching out to the keeper at Save Vietnam's Wildlife rescue center on June 22, 2020 in Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. (Linh Pham/Getty Images)

A tribute to disappearing creatures

Hillary Rosner - Undark
Medium Mylodon Cave or Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument a leading attraction in the Natales region, Patagonia, southern (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The demise of Darwin’s giant sloth

Nikolas Kozloff
Plate from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle', published in London, 1839-1843, and edited by the British originator of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin (1809-1882). (SSPL/Getty Images)

The enduring mystery of Darwin’s warrah

Nikolas Kozloff
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California City, CA - October 10: Lisa LaVelle, a naturalist, holds a desert tortoise hatchling that she found crawling in patio of her Ridgecrest home. LaVelle warns that it is against the law to take any wild tortoise from its habitat and to move any captive tortoise back out in the wild. Photographed on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 in California City, CA. ((Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

Can we still save the desert tortoise?

Matthew Rozsa
(Shana Novak / Getty Images)

French cheese on "verge of extinction"

Joy Saha
Underwater Polar Bear by Harbour Islands, Nunavut, Canada (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The Endangered Species Act turns 50

Matthew Rozsa
A museum employee looks at a Dodo in display at the 'Extinction: Not the End of the World?' exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Experts warn of a "biological holocaust"

Matthew Rozsa
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Emperor Penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, adults and chicks at colony Snow Hill Island, Antarctica (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Melting ice destroying penguin habitats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Orangutan (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Orangutans are being pushed to the brink

Assaf Levy
Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet?

Troy Farah
Deflated globe (Getty Images/Moussa81)

Ecosystem collapses may happen rapidly

Matthew Rozsa
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Butterfly specimens in research lab (Getty Images/Inti St Clair)

Many new species are already gone

Katarina Zimmer - Undark
Grey-Headed Flying Fox (Getty Images/Jamie Lamb)

Impending climate change extinctions

Matthew Rozsa
Morgan Freeman giving a speech at The White House in a scene from the film 'Deep Impact', 1998. (Paramount Pictures/Getty Images)

"Deep Impact" turns 25 — and it holds up

Matthew Rozsa
Meteorite from outer space, falling toward planet Earth (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Apocalyptic asteroid found near Venus

Matthew Rozsa
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The Last Unicorn (Sweet Streets/The Last Unicorn 40th Anniversary)

The Last Unicorn's eco-grief 40 years on

Kimberly Coburn
Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
This picture taken on October 18, 2018 shows newborn green turtles heading to the sea after being released from a protected area on Thameehla Island. - Peril plagues the young life of a baby turtle in Myanmar; if the crabs don't get them before they scramble from the beach to the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do - while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers. Myanmar's waters boast five of the world's seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered hawksbill, the endangered green turtle as well as the olive ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, all listed as vulnerable. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP) / PHOTO ESSAY by Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images) (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images))

Mass extinctions threaten Earth's future

Matthew Rozsa
Dense coastal redwood Sequoia sempervirens forest in Redwood National Park California showing fallen tree that has become a nurse log for new plant growth, Redwood National Park in northern California near Eureka California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Conservation potential of roadless areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, (aka "Lord God Bird") mounted specimen (Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Species declared extinct in 2021

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Bumble Bee, Bombus Hortorum, in flight, free flying over yellow buttercup flowers (Getty)

Several bumblebee species at risk

Carly Nairn - Undark
An illustration of two ivory billed wood pecker (Getty Images/Imagezoo)

23 gone, countless more to save

John R. Platt - The Revelator
A large polar bear getting ready jump of a small piece of ice (Getty Images)

Reimagining our duty to wild animals

Rachel Nuwer - Undark
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