8 endangered species that are being reintroduced around the world

Aug 10, 2022

Conservation projects around the world are helping to bring back endangered and extinct wildlife species. Image: Unsplash/David Marcu

Victoria Masterson

Senior Writer, Forum Agenda

Our Impact

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Future of the Environment is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Future of the Environment

Listen to the article

endangered reintroduction of species wild horses biodiversity

The reintroduction of species like the endangered wild horses helps to boost biodiversity in nature. Image: Rewilding Europe

Vultures biodiversity loss endangered species habitat loss reintroduction

Vulture populations are now slowly increasing, because of reintroduction programmes and species protection Image: Rewilding Europe / Bogdan Boev

Brush-tailed bettong rat kangaroos biodiversity Australia endangered mammal

The brush-tailed bettong, or woylie, an endangered mammal, has been reintroduced to Australia. Image: Flickr/Arthur Chapman

Red kite endangered biodiversity extinction

Reintroducing the endangered red kites to the UK has been a huge success story. Image: Unsplash/David Adams

Wild Przewalski's horse biodiversity endangered species

An endangered wild horse species called Przewalski's horse is said to be the world’s only truly wild horse. Image: Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Discover

What is the World Economic Forum doing about nature?

Have you read?

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.