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

Around 150 animal and plant species vanish every day - with barely a headline to mark their passing. The illustrated anthology "Wir dachten, wir könnten fliegen" (Penguin 2025) pushes back: prominent authors give 19 extinct species one final stage in literary portraits. Somewhere between fact and fiction, the Hawaiian mountain hibiscus, Steller's sea cow, and the Formosan clouded leopard get to exist again.

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 why species protection matters, both globally and right here in Göttingen.