When We Get Extinction Wrong

One of the greatest conservation success stories begins with an extinction. The Lord Howe Island stick insect is an animal that came back from the dead. Endlings portrait illustrations are by Zoe Keller. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://www.zoekeller.com/ Find out more about the National Geographic Photo Ark here: https://www.joelsartore.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@PhotoArk Follow us on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social #BizarreBeasts #endlings #stickinsect ----- Sources: https://epdf.pub/hope-for-animals-and-their-world-how-endangered-species-are-being-rescued-from-t.html https://scispace.com/pdf/lord-howe-island-a-riddle-of-the-pacific-part-iii-1jpuksnjj5.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20070109023343/http://www.fnpw.org.au/enews2/Phasmids.htm https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-rarest-insect-makes-stunning-comeback-after-near-extinction https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/pestsweeds/draftLHIrodentplan.pdf https://www.uowoajournals.org/asj/article/393/galley/391/download/ https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/acv.12392 https://bpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.auckland.ac.nz/dist/4/1051/files/2025/02/81_Walsh_2019.pdf https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-23/lord-howe-island-cloud-forest-rare-ecosystem-species-return/104407260 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/09/trouble-in-paradise-lord-howe-island-divided-over-plan-to-exterminate-rats https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol17/iss2/4/ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/07/a-nasty-place-at-the-moment-lord-howe-island-tense-as-rat-baiting-begins https://mousefreemarion.org/australias-lord-howe-island-declared-free-of-introduced-rats-and-mice-following-a-successful-eradication-operation/ https://www.lhib.nsw.gov.au/environment/rodent-eradication-project/ecological-benefits ------ Images: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajgguugRuSN4tGq-j9r_CtZQetFRmJYAfVJsDBOTvFo/edit?tab=t.0