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Chapter 13, final chapter
Title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson
Kolbert's two specific examples are birds
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The Thing With Feathers

A presentation based on the final chapter of Elizabeth Kolbert's THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

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1.

HOPE

"The Thing with Feathers"
Chapter 13, final chapter
Title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson
Kolbert's two specific examples are birds
Photo by frank mckenna
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PO'OULI

Black-faced Honeycreeper
This bird is extinct
It's DNA kept alive in a test tube
3.

THE SAN DIEGO ZOO

4.

HAWAIIAN CROW

This is the Hawaiian crow, alala, very nearly extinct
Researchers, scientists, volunteers working to ensure its extinction doesn't happen
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"Saving hawaiian birds from extinction"

YouTube video: Saving Hawaiian birds from extinction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYqtubC0iY&app=desktop
Photo by Nemo's great uncle
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CALIFORNIA CONDOR

Saving a species can happen
From 22 to over 400
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BUT NOT INFINITELY SO"

"LIFE IS EXTREMELY RESILIENT
http://youtu.be/VrokfZ6mD5A

10 animals that may go extinct in the next ten years

Elizabeth Kolbert in the Hall of Biodiversity
Go to page and highlight in book
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HUMAN INGENUITY CAN OUTRUN

ANY DISASTER HUMAN INGENUITY SETS IN MOTION
Photo by frankh
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HOPE

Photo by seyed mostafa zamani

Kate Nelson