Plants > Malvaceae & Mallows
The Saint Helena Redwood (Trochetiopsis erythroxylon) is one of the world’s rarest and most historically significant island trees, strictly endemic to the isolated volcanic island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Despite its common name, it is not a...
Amphibians > Telmatobiidae & Water Frogs
The Sehuencas Water Frog (Telmatobius gigas) is a fully aquatic, cold-adapted amphibian endemic strictly to the high-elevation cloud forest cascades and mountain streams of the Bolivian Andes. Belonging to the specialized Neotropical water frog family Telmatobiidae,...
Birds > Trochilidae & Hummingbirds
The Santa Marta Sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) is one of the rarest and most legendary hummingbirds on planet Earth, endemic exclusively to the isolated mountain massif of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. Feared extinct after disappearing...
Mammals > Chrysochloridae & Golden Moles
De Winton’s Golden Mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) is an elusive, sand-swimming subterranean mammal endemic strictly to a tiny coastal dune corridor in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Feared extinct for over 86 years before being astonishingly rediscovered in...
Plants > Asteraceae & Cabbage Trees
The Juan Fernández Cabbage Tree (Dendroseris litoralis) is one of the world’s rarest and most iconic examples of island botanical gigantism, endemic strictly to the remote, wind-lashed volcanic bluffs of Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific off Chile....
