Last Appearance: An Obituary for Biodiversity - Britta Walbrun and Matthias Jügler

Around 150 animal and plant species disappear every day - most of them without making headlines. The illustrated anthology "Wir dachten, wir könnten fliegen" (Penguin 2025) pushes back against that silence: acclaimed authors give 19 extinct species one final stage in literary portraits that move between fact and fiction - the Hawaiian mountain hibiscus, Steller's sea cow, and the Formosan clouded leopard live again on the page.

Editor Matthias Jügler, Göttingen's nature conservation officer Britta Walbrun, and publisher Andreas Rötzer discuss the peculiar human habit of managing loss rather than preventing it - and the urgent need for species protection, both globally and right here in Göttingen.