Featured: The extinct Rocky Mountain grasshopper; the American burying beetle now struggling against habitat loss and pesticides; and Bob Merz, who is both a voice for American burying beetles and a key player in an innovative program that breeds these endangered insects in captivity and releases them into the wild. Art by Aaron Hughes.

Featured: The mysterious and extinct Catahoula salamander; the hellbender (the largest salamander in North America); and Will Miller, former chief conservation officer with the Seneca Nation of Indians, who led a pioneering program to reintroduce hellbenders in western New York and garner public support for protecting this giant salamander. Art by Roger Peet.

Featured: An extinct member of the sunflower family called Appalachian Barbara’s buttons; an endangered plant in Nevada called Tiehm’s buckwheat (threatened by a lithium mine); and botanist Naomi Fraga, who has worked to protect this plant and generate public support. Art by Sarah Farahat.

Featured: The extinct Hawai‘i mamo (once one of the most honored birds in traditional Hawaiian society); the endangered ’i’iwi (threatened mostly by introduced mosquitos); and Kuʻulei Wong, a native Hawaiian who grew up with a love of the islands’ birds and forests and now, as a scientist, is working to save them. Art by Fernando Martí.

Featured: The extinct Zestos skipper butterfly; the brightly colored Miami blue butterfly (now disappeared from 99% of its range); and Sarah Steele Cabrera, part of a team of intrepid scientists working to reintroduce the butterfly. Art by Molly Fair.

Featured: The extinct Viesca mud turtle; the Sonoyta mud turtle, who lives in a single spring-fed pond at the U.S.-Mexico border; and Amber Ortega, a Hia-Ced O’odham activist who participated in a series of protests, ceremonial prayers and direct actions — and was even arrested — fighting construction of the border wall. Art by Andrea Narno.

Featured: The extinct yellow-blossom pearly mussel; the endangered shinyrayed pocketbook, driven out of most of its historic range; and Jim Williams, an icon of research and advocacy for endangered species in the American Southeast, including freshwater mussels. Art by Sanya Hyland.

Featured: The Bramble Cay melomys, the first modern mammal driven extinct by climate change; the American pika, a small mammal related to rabbits and hares that’s threatened by the climate crisis; and Zeph Fishlyn, a longtime artist and activist with a distinct focus on addressing climate change and the extinction crisis through visual art, storytelling and direct action. Art by Saiyare Refaei.

Featured: The Tecopa pupfish (declared extinct in 1981); California’s Owens pupfish, barely hanging on in the face of climate change and drying habitat; and Harry Williams, who was water protector, activist, elder, educator and environmental organizer with the Bishop Paiute tribe. Art by Paul Kjelland. 

Featured: Extinct northern curlews, who were once among the most numerous shorebirds on the tundra of western Arctic Canada and Alaska; the now-endangered far-migrating red knots; and biologist Larry Niles, who has been working to understand and save red knots for more than 25 years. Art by Erik Ruin.

Featured: An extinct tree called the woolly hawthorn; the swamp bay (an everglades tree that’s been devastated by a disease spread by nonnative beetles); and the Rev. Houston R. Cypress, a member of the Otter Clan of Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe and cofounder of the Love the Everglades Movement. Art by Kill Joy.