These books delve into the stories of species at risk, offering readers the opportunity to learn about their local threatened species, discover the conservation efforts of scientists and communities, and reflect on the species we’ve already lost. In Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger, editors Branden Holmes and Gareth Linnard share that much of “our understanding of its ecology and behaviour is largely based on anecdote”, and the assumption that there was a lack of opportunity or will to study the thylacine in the wild “is no truer of the thylacine than any other comparably rare species encountered during the 19th and early 20th centuries”.