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6 animal species that will become extinct in 2025   Extinction is rarely instantaneous. It is a process that unfolds behind the scenes, marked by missed observations, diminishing records, and the slow transfer of hope into the future. In 2025, a small group of species crossed the final bureaucratic threshold and were officially listed on the IUCN Red List as extinct. For science, the change was a technicality, delayed for decades, and for other readers it was perceived as a set of obituaries. Every year, our planet loses species that have survived for thousands (sometimes millions) of years, only to disappear in a single human lifetime. In 2025, several animals were officially declared extinct or extinct in the wild, and each disappearance reminds us of how...

Dear friends! We are pleased to inform you about the publication of a new version of the "Catalog of Amphibians of the Zoological Museum of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv". This updated and supplemented version is published as an electronic edition, which can be viewed at the link: http://195.20.96.242:5028/lvnuif-s/docs/Katalog_Amphibia_08_09_2025.pdf

Dear friends! We are pleased to inform you that on the website of the information resource Biodiversity of Ukraine / Biodiversity of Ukraine, which has long gone beyond the borders of our country in terms of its content, information about our Zoological Museum of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv has also appeared in the section "Collections of institutions". In particular, the introduction of digitized specimens from the collection of the Western Ukrainian entomologist Ludwig Lyasota has begun. Mr. L. Lyasota worked as a teacher in Kamianets-Podilskyi and surrounding villages. Later, he combined the work of a teacher with the position of inspector of the district education department, and a little later - inspector of the regional education...