A deer drinking from a dark mountain river at sunset, with conifers behind and yellow wildflowers in the foreground
Encyclopedia
Wildlife
Living and lost animals: species still here, species under threat, species already gone, insects, the animals people keep, and birds, plus a page on our own species.
Photo: founder-supplied deer drinking from a river at sunset.
Surviving
Still here, with ranges or numbers that shifted after people spread.
Endangered
Species whose numbers are now low enough that they may disappear.
Extinct
Species with no living animals left.
Homo sapiens
Origin in Africa, numbers today, and the large mammals that vanished after people first arrived.
Insects
The six-legged majority: bees, beetles, and the rest of insect life.
Domesticates
Animals people keep: livestock, companions, and working species.
Birds
Living birds of coasts, skies and recovery programmes, from condors and cranes to penguins, puffins and albatrosses.