extirpation

Example Sentences

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The loss of their primary food source combined with a deadly mixture of trophy hunting, culling, and industrial fishing led to the near extirpation of coastal shark species.

From Salon

These lands and waters also speak for themselves, in layers of history and time, read in pollen records and shell middens, in extirpation, in displacement and persistence.

From Seattle Times

Without Zhur’s genes, this extirpation and replacement would have been invisible to scientists.

From National Geographic

"As a result, they had come to place their hope for the extirpation of the trade on the corrosive effect over time of education and general civilisation."

From BBC

Twenty-five years ago this month, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, America’s first national park and an ecosystem dangerously out of whack owing to the extirpation of its top predator.

From The Guardian