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extinction

noun as in dying out

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But in fact, history shows that humans do have the power to save animals on the brink of extinction.

From Salon

Some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires, conservationists have warned.

From BBC

The New Yorker staff writer makes the case for the effects of climate change bringing about a new age of extinctions on our planet.

The extinction event looming on the horizon was Amazon, of course, which launched its website in 1995 and would grab the public’s attention in 1997 with its wildly successful initial public offering.

The River Usk is a designated special area of conservation protected by law, due to its importance for rare wildlife including the Atlantic salmon, which is threatened with extinction from Wales.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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