Having witnessed the extinction of the Japanese oriental stork and the Japanese crested ibis, Dr. Shimano knew he had to help ...

The species - whose Latin name is Nipponia nippon - is also known as the Japanese crested ibis, but is best known in the South for a popular children’s song composed in the 1920s, when Korea was ...

Declared extinct in the wild in Japan in the 1980s, the crested ibis has made a dramatic comeback following an artificial breeding and release program. But in the end, Mother Nature has the last word.