Sentence examples for been driven to extinction from inspiring English sources

The birds have almost been driven to extinction by hunters targeting them along their migration routes through central Asia.

While other far more formidable creatures – bears, wolves, lynxes – have been driven to extinction, the badger has endured, our largest carnivorous mammal, largely because it is so elusive.

China is the main market for elephant ivory ornaments and Vietnam, where the native rhino has been driven to extinction, is where most rhino horn is sold as medicine.

"Those cherished bad movies — full of jerry-built effects, abominable acting, ludicrous story lines" have been "driven to extinction," the critic A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in 2005.

Over the decades they have been ruthlessly plundered by collectors from their native, mainly tropical forest habitats, with the result that many species have been driven to extinction in the wild and many more are on the brink.

In the future, when all fresh fruit has long since been driven to extinction by apocalyptic nuclear war and hens lay eggs that can double up as glow-in-the-dark nightlights, this is how pancakes and blueberry sauce will taste.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Twenty to 50 percent of the planet's species would be driven to extinction.

Within any local area, one species may generally be driven to extinction by the other.

When that happened, though, most ferns could not stand the competition and were driven to extinction.

Great bustards were driven to extinction in England in the early 19th century and are now being slowly reintroduced.