On the 29th of September, 2021 the US fish and Wildlife Service declared their intention to delist 23 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. The big one that got all the attention was the ivory-billed woodpecker, however the bulk of this list were eight freshwater bivalves and eleven species from the pacific, eight of those from Hawaii, including the Kauai and Maui Nukupu'u, leaving the ʻakiapolaʻau as the only living member of their genus. But how are we sure these species are extinct? That is what I hope to explain in this video.

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0:00 Hiking the Pu'u O'o trail
1:14 ʻakiapolaʻau foraging
2:27 Extinct Birds of Hawaii
6:53 How do we know a species is extinct?
8:48 Why we have to be carful when listing species as Extinct
9:11 The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Controversy
12:55 Protecting ecosystems and possibly extinct species with species we can find
14:02 Conclusion
15:01 Outro

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