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A species reduced to its last few dozen individuals seems, by every instinct, doomed. The numbers are so small, the situation so dire, that survival feels impossible. And often it is. Many creatures pushed that low do indeed slip away, vanishing from the Earth forever. Extinction is real, final, and far too common. Yet not always. Again and again, against the longest of odds, species reduced to a handful of survivors have been pulled back from the edge and rebuilt into thrivi

To see a truly rare animal in the wild is among the most thrilling experiences a traveller can have. Not in a zoo or an enclosure, but out in the living landscape, on the creature's own terms, where the sighting is never guaranteed and every encounter is earned. The rarest wildlife rewards those willing to travel to remote and remarkable places, to wait with patience, and to accept the uncertainty that makes success so sweet. This is a guide to some of the great destinations

A crocodile in the heart of the Sahara. A dolphin hundreds of miles up an Amazon tributary. A penguin living almost on the equator. An ancient fish surviving in the deep, long after its kind was thought extinct. Again and again, the rarest and most remarkable animals turn up exactly where we least expect them. Not in the obvious places, not where the textbook says they should be, but in strange, improbable corners that seem to make no sense at all. This is not coincidence. Th