Our mission: to counter the Holocene Extinction.

Founded in 2007, the International De-Extinction Alliance is a global non-governmental organization dedicated to fighting the current extinction crisis. We act as a unified framework to facilitate collaboration between institutions worldwide towards this common goal. Using modern genetics and conservation techniques, our members strive to keep the earth's biodiversity aloft in a changing world. Together, we spearhead one of the largest and most ambitious conservation initiatives in the world.

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News April 26, 2019 - the Grimsey auk colony has begun to pair up, a little earlier than normal. Population biologist Maren Nielsen has suggested this might be due to climate change. March 6, 2019 - Phil Lager and colleagues describe the Mosasaur louse (Gigacaligus mosasaurophilus), a parasitic sea louse found only on Huxley Paleozoo's Mosasaurus.

Background image by Julio Lacerda, courtesy of Studio 252MYA.