You will see a few of the tens of thousands of species that scientists say have gone extinct or become critically endangered over the past 30 years. Please try to read the accompanying article by Richard Conniff in The New York Times entitled Specimens: Lost and Gone Forever. The discovery that species could become extinct shook the 19th century view of the world, and it should continue to trouble us today.
A "must read" for any lover of natural history.
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A wonderful success story (tho by no way "safe" yet) is the return of the whooping cranes. I was blessed to see (and hear) a pair in WI. This is a great web site to learn more about this effort: http://operationmigration.org/index.html This group hand raises whooping crane chicks every year, teaches them to follow "Mama Ultralight" and leads them down to FL so they learn the migration route. It's wonderful!
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