extirpation
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Fortunately, the pumas’ extirpation from the region doesn’t mean they’ll be extinct everywhere in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
The tribe has watched salmon harvest decline by more than 80% in the past decades, and the unaddressed impacts of climate change are sending the salmon toward extirpation, Brimmer argued in the letter.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
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
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
We may attribute his action either to his zeal for the extirpation of Mariolatry, or to his fear lest sacred legend should be confounded with sacred history.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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