An article by Michelle Nijhuis in The New Yorker (2017) catalogues this emergence of the endling through a visual illustration by artist Bjørn Lie that features well-known endlings like Celia (the last Pyrenean Ibex), Toughie (the last Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrog), and Orange Band (the last Dusky Seaside sparrow). Defined by historian Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger) as the “last individual of a species,” the endling has infiltrated our field of vision in recent years. But what if this process could be made tangible and visible, at least in part? What would it mean to preserve and monumentalize an extinct species?Įnter the endling. Scientists at The Center for Biological Diversity, for instance, estimate that “we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day.” Beyond the precincts of conservation science, these background extinctions often persist without being registered, and therefore properly accounted for, by the rest of human society.
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What is it that we see, or fail to see, of the mass extinction of species? In the present era, species loss often evades full comprehension due to its global scale and complexity.
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