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Just five (9%) of these 53 species were extirpated by Post-I, but this increased to 11 extirpated species (21%) by Post-II (Figure 2; Table S1).

More impressive still, built into ledges on the cliffs above the Dogon villages are the buildings that the locals' predecessors, the pygmy Tellem, used until they left the area or were extirpated around the 14th century.

Wolves were extirpated from most of Western Europe more than a century ago, but, owing to stringent protections put in place over the past few decades, they have recently been making a comeback in countries like Germany and France.

It was estimated that half the birds of Britain died in the cold; the Dartford warbler population was slashed by 98 per cent, wrens by nearly 80 per cent and over much of the country, kingfishers were extirpated.

One prominent theory, termed "mesopredator release," posited that as top predators were extirpated (removed) from an ecosystem, the medium-sized (or meso-) carnivores such as foxes, coyotes, and raccoons would proliferate rapidly.

Biologists say that in Yellowstone, where wolves were extirpated in the early 1900s and then reintroduced in 1995, there are 88 left, part of an overall Northern Rockies wolf population estimated earlier this year at 1,774, including 748 in Idaho, 653 in Montana, 328 in Wyoming, plus a few in Washington and Oregon.

He acknowledged that certain attitudes have to be extirpated.

It must be extirpated, like the French from Algeria.

For him religion is an evil that poisons everything and must be extirpated.

"In Japan, for example, some populations have already been extirpated on islands.

Today cheetahs have been extirpated from a large portion of this area.