Bordered Gothic Moth
Bordered Gothic Moth was delicate, as if wearing a gown of black lace. Some say they are still here, though none have been seen on this island for more than a decade. Look out, maybe this one is still flying among us.
Pyrenean Ibex
Once there were many of them, roaming across France and Spain. Then there were fewer and fewer. Maybe too many got hunted, maybe diseases struck. In the end, there was only one lone female. And she died, hit by a falling tree. So, on January 6 2000, the last Pyrenean Ibex left the world.
Spix’s Macaw
We also called it Little Blue Macaw, because it had beautiful blue feathers underneath the grey. People trapped and traded it, and destroyed the places where it lived, and soon it had nowhere to be. It went missing from the wild in 2004.
Golden Toad
A beautiful creature, like painted in burned gold, it lived in a cloud forest in Costa Rica. But nobody has laid eyes on its golden skin since 1989. We searched for it for many years, but in 2007, the world declared that it was extinct. It is thought that disease, pollution and global warming were the cause.
Tecopa Pupfish
Tecopa pupfish lived in hot springs in the Mohave Desert. People came to the desert and built houses and hotels with golf courses. When things there changed too much, the fish had less and less space to live and started disappearing. They have been gone from the world since 1982.
Paintings by Vincent Oyenga
Words by Daniela Othieno
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