LOST WONDERS: 10 TALES OF EXTINCTION FROM/ 21ST CENTURY (HB)

These are the stories of ten species that have been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century: giant tortoises, miniscule snails, ocean-hopping trees and fish which wagged their tails, among others. Drawing on the personal recollections of the people who studied them, as well as those who tried but ultimately failed to save them, this is an intimate portrait of species that have only recently vanished from our world, and an urgent warning about what we continue to face losing.