You can count what's left
Two northern white rhinos. Ten vaquitas. Forty-two Hainan gibbons. Every profile here carries the best number we have — because a count you can hold in your head is harder to look away from.
Why it matters
Extinction is not an event. It's a quiet subtraction.
We did this
A wire snare. A gillnet. A painkiller fed to cattle. A dam thrown across a spawning river. Almost every loss here started with a human decision. That's the hopeful bit: decisions can be unmade.
They do come back
The kākāpō. The California condor. The black-footed ferret. The mountain gorilla. Every one of them was written off. Every one is climbing back — because the people behind these profiles refused to accept the maths.
