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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Hey Shortwavers, Anil Oza, temporarily in the host here today.

And I'm bringing you a story about critters, but not the completely light-hearted kind.

Just a few months ago, the International Union for Conservation of Nature found that

some 40,000 species are threatened with extinction and about 7,000 of those are

because of climate change. But last year I started noticing a trend.

Although it wasn't seen for 87 years, it turns out this mole isn't extinct, it's just really shy.

This is something that doesn't have a sign in the main. It's just really shy. Okay.

This is something that doesn't have a sign in the name.

This is one of the largest rats in the world,

and here we are

pulling. One Attenborough's long beepedakidna

was rediscovered by scientists on an expedition this past summer in the

in relatively remote areas across the globe scientists were finding evidence of

animals they hadn't seen for years. They wanted to know if this was part of a bigger trend of us getting better at

pinning down these species. So I call Tom. My name is Tom Evans and I'm a conservation scientist based at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.

I'm interested in trying to protect those species from extinction and to protect them from the threats that are caused by human activities such as climate change,

habitat loss and pollution.

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