Sentence examples for extinction of indigenous from inspiring English sources

Responding to the threatened extinction of indigenous communities such as the Nukak, and the nearby Jiw and Sicuani, the Colombian government has started a national safeguard plan.

Also, the introduction of non-native salmonids and gobiids (e.g. Neogobius melanostomus, Figure 1D) has resulted in the decline and even extinction of indigenous species, and caused ecosystem shifts in lakes and streams [6, 111].

As extinction of indigenous breeds is accelerated, it will become extremely important to enrich the Bovine HapMap database with information on genetic variation from indigenous animals that have not yet been studied.

Exotic parasites can be introduced into new locations along with their exotic host species (1, 4 ), sometimes causing extinction of indigenous parasites (5 ).

Evolutionary studies of insular biotas are based mainly on extant taxa, although such biotas represent artificial subsets of original faunas because of human-caused extinctions of indigenous species augmented by introduced exotic taxa.

The historical advance of non-indigenous populations and economic frontiers into the interior of Brazil caused drastic depopulation and even extinction of numerous indigenous societies [ 13- 15].

Even in East Prussia the extinction of the indigenous population took place only under considerably changed circumstances by the end of the 17th century and may have been due as much to epidemics as to cultural assimilation.

The lack of documentation and the extinction of many indigenous languages as the result of colonial cultural and language policies have made the prospect of official recognition of many tribes a remote possibility.

Conservation efforts have been extraordinarily successful here, bringing endemic species back from the brink of extinction, replanting indigenous forest that was once compromised by man, and monitoring the turtles that come to these shores each year to nest.

In River Thieves (2001), Michael Crummey describes the extinction of the Beothuk, an indigenous people of Newfoundland, and Lisa Moore's Alligator (2005) dissects lives in contemporary St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador province.

Given the history of humans in Hawaii, it would be easy to resign oneself to the seeming inevitability of extinction for most indigenous biodiversity.