00:00America's rarest animals face extinction, amid habitat loss and human threats.
00:06An Aki Kiki clings to a wet branch in Kauai's cloud forest.
00:11America's rarest animals survive in beaches, rivers, forests, deserts, caves, and islands.
00:17The Aki Kiki hops through Hawaiian forest canopy, where mosquitoes and habitat loss
00:22have pushed the bird toward disappearance.
00:24The Bethany Beach firefly flashes over Delaware wetlands, needing dark marsh edges where development
00:31and bright lights stay away.
00:33The ivory-billed woodpecker once hammered southern swamp trees, but confirmed sightings have
00:38vanished into debate and silence.
00:41The Alabama sturgeon swims through muddy river channels, where dams and altered currents have
00:46reduced its historic range.
00:49The Red Wolf moves through North Carolina refuges, where radio callers track one of America's
00:54rarest wild canids.
00:56The Florida panther stalks sawgrass and pine flatwoods, while highways cut dangerous lines
01:01through its hunting range.
01:03The Salt Creek tiger beetle runs across Nebraska wetlands, flashing metallic green as it hunts
01:08tiny insects in mud.
01:10The California condor glides above canyon cliffs, while biologists monitor lead poisoning from
01:16contaminated carrion.
01:18The vaquita surfaces in Mexico's northern Gulf of California, where fishing nets have nearly
01:24erased the small porpoise.
01:26Wetlands, forests, rivers, highways, and fishing nets now decide whether these animals remain
01:31visible.
01:32A tiny firefly flashes over dark marsh grass while the night closes around it.
01:37properties cannot pass the overflow of the river did drain lines.
01:38Touch 1.
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