Sentence examples for extinction threats from inspiring English sources

Mace, G. & Lande, R. Assessing extinction threats: toward a reevaluation of IUCN threatened species categories.

It is currently considered threatened with extinction by The World Conservation Union (IUCN), which monitors extinction threats to bird species.

Choice Cuts identifies the most important impacts of the deforestation, including biodiversity loss, increasing pressure on water reserves, starvation threats to large animals such as pumas and jaguars, and extinction threats to endemic species.

The idea is to link together the world's remaining forest islands by planting small corridors of trees between them, allowing native birds, mammals and plants to spread between the fragments, mingle with their brethren and become more resilient against extinction threats.

The list assesses the conservation status of many species across the globe to promote their conservation and highlight extinction threats.

This is the conclusion of a new study published online today in Science, where researchers compared extinction threats in today's oceans versus ancient oceans.

He was not talking about actual extinctions, but the much more nebulous idea of an extinction threat.

"The link that we found between body size and extinction threat in the modern oceans is quite strong," Payne told the Guardian.

This article was amended on 8 March 2017 to clarify that the extinction threat to red squirrels is only to populations within the UK.

But, at least for the 10 populations recommended for delisting, the agency determined that the combined potential risks were not an extinction threat.

In a letter to the journal Science, three scientists say that collection practices for ornamental trade and medical research, coupled with habitat destruction through pollution and global climate change, pose an extinction threat to these animals.