Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) seen in its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a succes...
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Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes). The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breeding progr...
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Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Group of Exmoor ponies {Equus caballus}, released at Street Heath (Somerset Wildlife Trust) Nature Reserve, for conservation grazing, Somerset Levels, Somerset, UK. June 2011. Did you know? These poni...
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David Tipling / 2020VISION / Exmoor Pony (Equus caballus) grazing, the ponies are used to manage grassland on the Sandlings heath, Suffolk, UK, February 2011. Photographer quote: 'These Exmoor ponies are used to replicate the gra...
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Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Konik horse (Equus caballus) two stallions fighting, wild herd in rewilding project, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June 2011. Photographer quote: "Koniks are a rare Polish horse used as surrogate gr...
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Mark Carwardine / Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) with horn removed, after initial release into the wild, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, June 2010, Extinct in the wild, only eight left in captivi...
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Mark Carwardine / Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) close-up of eye, Dvur Kralove Zoo, Czech Republic, December 2009, Extinct in the wild, only eight left in captivity, critically endangered, Part...
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Mark Carwardine / Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) close up of eye, in enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo, Czech Republic, the day before departure, December 2009, Extinct in the wild, only eight left...
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Miles Barton / Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus ziteki) Panama, Featured in BBC NHU series 'Life in Cold Blood'. Species now extinct in the wild
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Miles Barton / Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus ziteki) reacting to the image of a frog on a video monitor. Experiment carried out to reveal the purpose of the frog's waving behaviour - to attract mates and deter ri...
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Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) immature bird flying with transmitter attached, critically endangered extinct in wild and recently re-introduced, 9-10 foot wingspan, Marble Canyon, Arizona
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Tui De Roy / Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni), Lonesome George, the last survivor of his race, Darwin Reserve Station, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador