Sentence examples for being driven to extinction from inspiring English sources

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

Sharks risk being driven to extinction due to overfishing, with almost 100 million killed each year, scientists have warned.

Somehow, Oates has clung to a great capacity for joy, despite witnessing butterflies being driven to extinction in so many places.

Wild species vanish wholesale at the local scale and are being driven to extinction globally at rates estimated at 100 to 1,000 times faster than the long-term "background" rate.

Biruté Galdikas, the Jane Goodall of orangutans, who established the main research camp in Tanjung Puting, in 1971, warned earlier this year that the orangutan is being driven to extinction.

They are training with Hasadin, a team of elite rangers formed in June 2015, whose mission is to stop the Siamese rosewood tree from being driven to extinction by poachers.

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.

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