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The 52 hectares of land became a Local Wildlife Site in 2006 before closing a decade later, but conservationists said the development would threaten rare bumblebees and endangered broad-leaved cudweed.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
That’s what Ossoff sensed last fall, when he was considered to be the nation’s most endangered Democrat.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Several forces made fiscal hawks an endangered species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Dozens of critically endangered tortoises were sent by a German commercial breeder to a defunct zoo in Togo, then to Belgium before arriving in India.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
He does not hunt elephants anymore—he approves of the current worldwide ban on ivory—but he does hunt Cape buffalo, which is not an endangered species.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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