Sentence examples for extinction largely from inspiring English sources

Sudan's death comes as other rhino populations around the world teeter on the brink of extinction, largely because of poaching.

In India, all nine species of the bird are threatened with extinction, largely through the indiscriminate use of diclofenac, a common anti-inflammatory drug administered to livestock but which is lethal for the vultures that eat the corpses of cattle.

Almost a third of the world's cactus species are now threatened with extinction, largely due to illegal trading fuelled by collectors with a penchant for rare and exotic plants, according to new research published.

Meanwhile, the other 10m species that share the same evolutionary nursery, the same living space and the same ultimate energy resource – and which in ways we don't appreciate have so far tapped into, shaped, delivered and recycled the wealth that humans regard as theirs – will survive or dwindle to extinction largely because humans can choose whether they flourish or perish.

Globally, sharks are threatened with extinction largely due to overfishing (targeted and by-catch) and other unsustainable practices.

Worldwide, 32percentt of the world's known amphibian species are threatened with extinction, largely because of habitat loss or pollution, according to the group Global Wildlife Conservation.

We live in the midst of one of the great extinctions, largely caused by humans, and yet we've experienced nothing like the meteor that crashed into the earth 65 million years ago and destroyed the dinosaurs.

One poignant example I found was a petition by Arkansas-based environmental groups to ban the collection of wild turtles because some species faced possible extinction due largely to Chinese demand for turtle meat.

Current extinction rates, largely driven by humans, are between 100 and 1000 times greater than rates seen in the geologic record.

Extinction is largely addressed within the descriptions of individual present-day orders, rather than by adding dots for orders that are now extinct.

Evolutionary biologists have been studying these phenomena for more than a century, but they seem to have left a third extinction scenario largely unexplored: the possibility that certain types of creatures are simply more prone to dying out, irrespective of outside causes.