Sentence examples for already be extinct from inspiring English sources

In this situation, and taking into account that Madagascar has already lost most of its forests, very large numbers of insects and other poorly known taxa may already be extinct, effectively extinct or rapidly heading towards extinction due to past and current deforestation.

"If it wasn't for our struggle and the international pressure for justice, my mother's murder would already be extinct.

On the Hawaiian Islands today there remain a dozen species that are so extremely rare that the chances of saving them are poor; some may already be extinct.

It was found on Ilin Island, off the southern coast of Mindoro, but may already be extinct on Ilin because of extensive deforestation.

Many may already be extinct, having fallen prey to mongooses that were themselves introduced to tackle an earlier alien predator: rats.

The Philadelphia 76ers have become the 1999 Knicks, more in theme than in detail, but one step from the N.B.A. finals when all basketball logic screams they should already be extinct.

They found fairly consistent patterns: From amphibians to birds to mammals, about 1% to 2% of species already are extinct today, and 20%to50%0% are threatened numbers that approach those of the great mass extinctions of the past.

As an irony of fate, these exquisite coffee table books, with blinding color images of all the species that already are extinct, are published simultaneously.

A recent report by IUCN indicates that amphibians are the most endangered group of vertebrates worldwide, with 32percentt listed as threatened with extinction and 159 species already believed to be extinct [ 1].

Many plant species may already be functionally extinct.

The eastern North Pacific population, on the other hand, with less than 50 individuals remaining, is critically endangered – further still, the eastern North Atlantic population, which numbers in the low teens at best, may already be functionally extinct.