Sentence examples for vanished species from inspiring English sources

The premise of Ghost Bird is that when people hope to see a vanished species, it leads them to see "ghosts" of species that are gone.

The atmosphere was electric with the hopes and claims of top scientists bent on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon, and other vanished species.

New sightings of short-haired bumblebees show a scheme to reintroduce the vanished species to the UK is proving successful, conservationists have said.

But let's be honest, many of us probably find the idea of attending a funeral or walking in a processional for a vanished species a little foolish.

She questions the goal-driven frameworks of much conservation work: when there is no preferred end state, formerly rare and even vanished species tend suddenly to reappear.

Though this is Michel thinking, Houellebecq's conceit is that the whole novel is produced by post-humans in tribute to our vanished species; presumably this sweepingly confident tone is theirs as well.

Scientists sometimes describe fishermen as racing to catch the last fish, regardless of the harm to vanishing species.

Yet, in a world of vanishing species, melting ice caps and uncontrolled population explosion, Churchill's hour-long play tapped into our hidden fears.

Rogers's environmentalism is practical, enthusiastic and intrigued by clean-tech innovations, not given to heartstring-tugging rhetoric about vanishing species or redwood trees.

But sales representatives of the Brooklyn Brewery report that televisionless bars in the five boroughs are a vanishing species, said Stephen K. Hindy, the company's president.

Critics argue that altering genes could cause unknown effects, yet this technology may present the first genuine opportunity to protect vanishing species.