extirpation

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California’s gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extirpation about 100 years ago, with the last documented wild wolf shot in 1924.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

Where species collapse does not occur, “climate change may result in large-scale mortality and population extirpation due to maladaptation of populations.”

From Scientific American • May 5, 2023

For decades, the penny has faced — and successfully fended off — calls for its extirpation.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Gray seals previously on the brink of extirpation in waters of New England now occupy some Massachusetts beaches by the hundreds.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

Much damage is occasionally done by a species of worm, for the extirpation of which boys are engaged at from 1s. to 2s. per diem.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von