The phrase "are experiencing extinction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing species, cultures, or phenomena that are currently facing the threat of disappearing or becoming extinct.
Example: "Many species of animals are experiencing extinction due to habitat loss and climate change."
Alternatives: "are facing extinction" or "are undergoing extinction".
In this study, we focus on social and demographic correlates of song performance in the meta-population system of the Dupont's lark Chersophilus duponti, a threatened passerine that is experiencing extinction events in the smallest nuclei in the Iberian Peninsula [12].
Worldwide, about 60 mammal species have gone extinct in the past 400 years [8], and some 25% of remaining species are considered under threat of extinction [32], observations which contribute to notions we are experiencing a sixth mass extinction [3], [5], [8].
It's further evidence that we are experiencing a global mass extinction," he said.
Today tropical forests, more than any other ecosystem, are experiencing habitat alteration and species extinction on a greater scale and at a more rapid pace than at any other time in their history at least since the major extinction event (the K T extinction) at the end of the Cretaceous Period, some 66 million years ago (see Sidebar: Status of the World's Tropical Forests).
Many coral reef ecosystems throughout the Indo-Pacific and Oceania are experiencing rapid declines and local extinctions of Tridacna species of giant clam, a commercially harvested and ecologically significant bivalve.
Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments.
That piece and its focus on extinction led to a discussion with my good friend and Russian language scholar Ben Rifkin about another serious extinction crisis: the dramatic loss of languages we are experiencing around the globe.
The modern world is experiencing a "sixth great extinction" of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, scientists have warned.
What Americans were experiencing was not the extinction of civic life but its reinvention.
Now, say scientists, Earth may be experiencing a sixth wave of mass extinction.
