extinction
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A victim of government-sanctioned culling, trigger-happy farmers and rising road traffic, by 2002 the Iberian lynx was on the verge of extinction, with just 94 cats left in their natural habitat.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Snakes around the world are increasingly facing the threat of extinction, with disease emerging as a major concern alongside habitat loss.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
Humans once hunted humpbacks to the edge of extinction, but their numbers have rebounded in recent decades.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
On the verge of extinction, Kentish milkwort became the focus of urgent conservation action in 2013.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink of extinction, reducing the global population to no more than a few thousand individuals.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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