Baw Baw Frog

Amphibians > Ground Frogs

The Baw Baw Frog (Philoria frosti) is an extraordinary and critically imperiled Australian amphibian whose entire global distribution is restricted to the subalpine plateau and upper slopes of Mount Baw Baw in Victoria. Inhabiting saturated sphagnum bogs, dense...

Blind Albino Cave Crab

Invertebrates > Decapods & Squat Lobsters

The Blind Albino Cave Crab (Munidopsis polymorpha), celebrated locally in Lanzarote as ‘Jameito,’ is an exquisite, miniature galatheid squat lobster endemic exclusively to a single subterranean volcanic lava tube complex on the island of Lanzarote in the...

Saint Helena Ebony

Plants > Malvaceae

The Saint Helena Ebony (Trochetiopsis melanoxylon) is one of the world’s most famous botanical resurrection stories, a critically endangered flowering dwarf tree endemic solely to the remote, isolated volcanic island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean....

Siau Island Tarsier

Mammals > Primates

The Siau Island Tarsier (Tarsius tumpara) is one of the world’s most critically endangered primates, an exquisite nocturnal jewel confined entirely to a tiny, active volcanic island in northeastern Indonesia. Scientifically described in 2008, this diminutive...

Tapanuli Orangutan

Mammals > Primates

The Tapanuli Orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is the most recently identified and rarest great ape species on Earth, officially described by scientists in November 2017. Confined entirely to a tiny, isolated pocket of rugged submontane rainforest spanning barely 400...