Apart from habitat destruction and deliberate, targeted persecution, pelicans are vulnerable to disturbance at their breeding colonies by birdwatchers, photographers and other curious visitors.
However, deliberate human persecution has reduced the species' range to about one third, due to livestock predation and fear over attacks on humans.
Racial segregation is one of many types of segregation, which can range from deliberate and systematic persecution through more subtle types of discrimination to self-imposed separation.
No other wild animal in American history has suffered the kind of deliberate, and casual, persecution we have rained down on coyotes.
The ICC statement of charges says Bashir's policy amounted to genocide because those forced into refugee camps had suffered both regular attacks from militias and a deliberate policy of persecution and hunger.
The RSPB found a record 367 cases of deliberate bird of prey persecution in the UK in 2006.
Persecution and deliberate killing to clear areas near swimming beaches are only a contributor to shark decline.
Additional ICC charges accused Ntaganda of murder, rape and sexual slavery, ethnic persecution, pillaging and deliberate attacks against civilians in 2001 and 2002.
But Man's elaborate, thoughtful and deliberate inhumanity to Man, when seen in enslavement, persecution, and "final solutions", leaves a wake of scars that degrade every contemplative moment of a kind person's life in one way or another.
Additional charges of rape, murder, persecution based on ethnic grounds and the deliberate targeting of civilians were added in May 2012 as a result of evidence given during the trial of his co-accused and former boss, warlord Thomas Lubanga - the first person to be found guilty by the court two months earlier.
