Sentence examples for losing species from inspiring English sources

Scientists estimate we're now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate.

Dermot O'Gorman, chief executive of WWF Australia, said the world is losing species at an "alarming rate".

We are currently losing species at 1000 times the background rate – that is, the natural rate of extinction.

The depletion of rainforests is being blamed for the increasingly rapid rate at which the world is losing species.

At the rate we are losing species, a huge number currently alive will have gone extinct in that time.

But the most important reason, he said, was that by losing species humanity was losing what enabled us to have a "good standard of living".

These he referred to as espèces perdues, or lost species.

They'll be able to recreate an entirely lost species: the Westchester middle class.

But his most extravagant assertion — that there had existed a whole lost world, filled with lost species — remained just that.

"I am of absolutely no doubt we will lose species due to the increasing pressures being exerted by climate change," he said.

Putting fire back into the landscape is not the simple reverse of taking it out -- it is more like reintroducing a lost species.