news The animals that made it back from the brink of extinction Africanews 15/03/2021 The World Wildlife Fund estimates that on average the world has seen a 60 per cent decrease in the population size of mammals, birds, fish and amphibians due to conservation projects can originate in the strangest of ways and Here are some remarkable Somali elephant shrew Researchers decided to investigate further nearly 50 years on after a reported sighting in Djibouti, a country within the Horn of Africa. They were puzzled by this revelation due to their namesake being the only country they were believed to have inhabited pre-extinction.