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"Recently" Extinct Mammals

WHS which within relatively recent times were habitats for Mammal species and subspecies which have since become extinct. Description: Common name/Latin Name/Date of last sighting in wild/Date declared extinct/Notes + Links

World Heritage Sites connected to '"Recently" Extinct Mammals':

  • Galapagos Islands Darwin's Rice rat/Nesoryzomys Darwiniii/1930/1996 & Indefatigable Galapagos mouse/Nesoryzomys indefessus/1934/2000/; link
  • Gulf of California (Isla San Pedro Nolasco) - Pemberton's Deer Mouse/Peromyscus pembertoni/1938/1990/; link
  • Gulf of California Nelsons rice rat/ Oryzomys nelsoni/1897/ Used to live on Tres Marias ; link
  • Pyrénées - Mount Perdu Pyrenean ibex/Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica/6 January 2000/This last creature was captured before its death and genetic material taken - cloning experiments have taken place ; link
  • Tasmanian Wilderness Tasmanian Tiger/Thylacinus cynocephalus/1933/1936/ The date of extinction is "assumed" but the IUCN review of the site keeps open the possiblity that the animal might still exist there!; link
  • Ujung Kulon National Park Javan Tiger//Mid 80's/1994/ Ujung Kulon was not the final location of extinction but the IUCN inscription review states that all individuals had gone from there in 1960s ; link