25 Most Wanted Lost Species - Which Ones Have Been Rediscovered?

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Re:Wild released their list of the 25 Most Wanted Lost Species in 2017, and since then, global conservation efforts have searched high and low for these missing species. Many remain lost, but some have been found.

In this video, we're looking at all 25 of the lost species on the list. When did they go missing and why? And what's being done to find them again?

1. Syr Darya Shovelnose Sturgeon (1960 Kazakhstan)
2. Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo (1928 Indonesia)
3. Bullneck Seahorse (never observed in the wild, Australia)
4. De Winton's Golden Mole (1936 South Africa)
5. Zug's Monitor (1980 Indonesia)
6. Wallace's Giant Bee (1981 Indonesia)
7. Attenborough's Long-Beaked Echidna (1961 Indonesia)
8. Wellington's Solitary Coral (2000 Ecuador)
9. Sierra Leone Crab (1955 Sierra Leone)
10. Jackson's Climbing Salamander (1977 Guatemala)
11. Himalayan Quail (1876 India)
12. Pondicherry Shark (1979 India)
13. Pink-Headed Duck (1949 Myanmar)
14. Namdapha Flying Squirrel (1981 India)
15. Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (1978 Ivory Coast)
16. Ilin Island Cloudrunner (1953 Philippines)
17. Silver-Backed Chevrotain (1990 Vietnam)
18. Voeltzkow's Chameleon (1913 Madagascar)
19. Scarlet Harlequin Toad (1990 Venezuela)
20. New Zealand Greater Short-Tailed Bat (1967 New Zealand)
21. Sinu Parakeet (1949 Colombia)
22. Velvet Pitcher Plant (1918 Indonesia)
23. Somali Sengi (1968 Somalia)
24. Omiltemi Cottontail (early 1900s Mexico)
25. Fernandina Galapagos Tortoise (1906 Ecuador)