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February 26, 2021
A bird last seen more than 170 years ago in the rainforests of Borneo has been rediscovered, amazing conservationists who have long assumed it was extinct.
The Black-browed Babbler has only ever been documented once when it was first described by scientists around 1848 eluding all subsequent efforts to find it. But late last year, two men in Indonesian Borneo saw a bird they didn’t recognise and snapped photos of it before releasing the palm-sized creature back into the forest, according to Global Wildlife Conservation.
Ornithologists were astounded to find that the Black-browed Babbler was alive and well, despite not having been seen since before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”.
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New research made everyday paints a dreadful picture of the state of our delicate ecosystem from deep-sea corals to land animals. A recent study reveals that nearly one-third of the diverse freshwater fish populations which amounts to 51% of the total known fish species are on the edge of extinction across the world.
(Photo : Jeremy Bishop)
The World s Forgotten Fishes
The shocking number comes from the latest analysis done and gathered by 16 global conservation organizations in a study titled The World s Forgotten Fishes .
The analysis was led by the World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF), and partnering with organizations like the Nature Conservancy, London Zoological Society (ZSL), Global Wildlife Conservation, and Alliance for Freshwater Life.
A bird last seen more than 170 years ago in the rainforests of Borneo has been rediscovered, amazing conservationists who have long assumed it was extinct.
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Black-browed Babbler. Credit: Muhammad Rizky Fauzan
More than 150 species of birds around the world are considered lost with no confirmed sightings in the past decade, conservationists say. A bird last seen more than 170 years ago in the rainforests of Borneo has been rediscovered, amazing conservationists who have long assumed it was extinct.
The Black-browed Babbler has only ever been documented once when it was first described by scientists around 1848 eluding all subsequent efforts to find it.
But late last year, two men in Indonesian Borneo saw a bird they didn t recognise and snapped photos of it before releasing the palm-sized creature back into the forest, according to Global Wildlife Conservation.