extinction

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“You have the power to choose coexistence over extinction,” Tiffany Yap, the center’s urban wildlands science director, told commissioners before the vote.

From Los Angeles Times

The illness is caused by the generalist parasite Plasmodium relictum and has played a central role in the steep declines and extinctions of native Hawaiian honeycreepers.

From Science Daily

Businesses risk extinction themselves unless they protect and restore the natural world, scientists across the globe are warning.

From BBC

At the same time, slower-growing trees with specialized traits face a growing risk of decline or extinction.

From Science Daily

When the research team applied population models to the data, the results showed that puma predation alone was unlikely to drive the Monte Leon penguin colony to extinction.

From Science Daily