Tooth-billed Pigeon

Birds > Pigeons

The Tooth-billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), known locally in Samoa as the Manumea, is an evolutionarily isolated and critically imperiled colubmid that holds deep cultural significance as Samoa’s national bird. Often referred to as the ‘Little...

Tamaraw

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis), also widely known as the Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo, is an exceedingly rare, solitary bovine endemic strictly to the mountainous interior of Mindoro in the Philippines. As the largest native terrestrial mammal surviving in the Philippine...

Rothschild’s Slipper Orchid

Plants > Orchids

Rothschild’s Slipper Orchid (Paphiopedilum rothschildianum), reverently hailed as the ‘Gold of Kinabalu’ and the ‘King of Orchids,’ is an incomparably magnificent, critically endangered lady’s slipper orchid found nowhere else on...

Three Kings Kaikomako

Plants > Pennantiaceae

The Three Kings Kaikomako (Pennantia baylisiana) holds an extraordinary, legendary place in global botany, once recognized by the Guinness World Records as the rarest tree on Earth. Discovered in 1945 on the remote, windswept cliffs of Great Island in the Three Kings...

Franklin’s Bumblebee

Invertebrates > Bees

Franklin’s Bumblebee (Bombus franklini) is a famously rare, critically endangered native pollinator holding the narrowest geographic distribution of any bumblebee in the Americas, restricted to a tiny mountain zone straddling southern Oregon and northern...