Sentences with phrase «brink of extinction»

This article appeared in print under the headline «A handful of frogs bounce back from brink of extinction»

«The Short - tailed Albatross once perched on the very brink of extinction due to the feather trade, and its population remains small today.

Songbirds in Indonesia are on the very brink of extinction as many remarkable and rare birds are being captured and taken from their forest homes to be sold in markets as part of the illegal wildlife trade.

On the contrary the fishing of sharks for their fins by humans has brought many species to the brink of extinction.

But if Penney has pulled back from the brink of extinction, it remains a long, long way from thriving.

Métis author Chelsea Vowel argues for the official protection of Canada's Indigenous languages, which are currently on the brink of extinction

Time Inc (NYSE: TIME), which was spun off from Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) in mid-2014, could be another casualty of an industry - wide malaise that has rendered print media on the brink of extinction.

Many believers think the world must be brought to the brink of extinction so their respective messiah can return.

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

This community always feels like it is on the brink of extinction.

«Millions, including many of our Christian brothers and sisters, have experienced the most brutal forms of persecution, and entire cultures are now on the brink of extinction,» Moore said, in written comments for Baptist Press.

Hahaha... «virgins on the brink of extinction.»

Or will permission be denied because virgins are already on the brink of extinction?

Wolf, E. C. (1987) «On the brink of extinction: Conserving the diversity of life» Worldwatch Paper 78, Washington: Worldwatch Institute.

Firestone Walker's Wookey family has returned from the brink of extinction and is now roaring back with its wooliest progeny yet: Wookus, the next release in the brewery's Leo v. Ursus Chronology.

Bringing species back from the brink of extinction is the goal of San Diego Zoo Global.

She also fell in love with their rich cultural and spiritual beliefs that had helped them survive even as they teetered on the brink of extinction.

My favorite chunky monkey granola with peanuts, chocolate and banana chips is on the brink of extinction and I need a new one FAST.

But they are also networking to keep the Cleveland State University men's wrestling team in play, after it was saved from the brink of extinction earlier this year, when the school was threatening to cut the program.

Man City and Swansea are kindred spirits, having bounced from the brink of extinction back to the top flight.

Swansea, another outfit for whom survival now appears the sole reason for existence, was once a blueprint club, praised and fabled for lifting itself from the brink of extinction through a unified sense of purpose between fans and hierarchy.

We've rounded up the top 10 boys and girls name that have been saved from the brink of extinction this year.

And if you're looking for inspiration, we've suggested baby names worth bringing back from the brink of extinction.

Compared with the 32 years it's taken for the left to haul itself back from the brink of extinction.

This year's theme is on the illegal trade in wildlife, which is eroding Earth's precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage and driving species to the brink of extinction.

He may salvage a few nail - filing jobs, but his party is on the brink of extinction.

new labour have bought the labour party to the brink of extinction in only twenty shorty years and made it practically unelectable.

FOR decades a deadly fungus has been killing amphibians around the world, driving many to the brink of extinction, or worse.

With more than 4000 species on the brink of extinction and limited resources to help them, conservation needs to move beyond the cuteness factor

That's good news for lemurs in their native home of Madagascar, where lemurs live on the brink of extinction, and where human population growth makes contact with people and inter-species exchange of infectious disease increasingly likely.

To let a species decline to the brink of extinction is usually based on laziness, negligence, and lack of will.

The law's goal is not to preserve tiny populations on the brink of extinction but to recover species populations that are resilient enough to survive the bad luck which is so often part of living on the planet.

For a species roosting on the brink of extinction — as recently as 1983 only 22 condors remained — this was practically a baby boom.

Because room for error is slim for a species on the brink of extinction, most instances of vaccine use have been limited to emergency responses during ongoing outbreaks.

Protecting isolated species on the brink of extinction is where vaccines could do the most good.

«Protected area designation and trans - boundary collaboration, combined with the active participation of local communities in both biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development, have substantially improved the chances for the snubby to be saved from the brink of extinction,» says Frank Momberg, Director of Fauna & Flora International's Myanmar programme.

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

The species was on the brink of extinction late in the 20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population and is in the process of being removed from the U.S. federal government's list of endangered species.

In a year that the United Nations declared the International Year of Biodiversity, scientists announced a bevy of newfound species that appeared to be already teetering on the brink of extinction.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

The problem drove bald eagles, our national symbol, not to mention peregrine falcons and other bird populations, to the brink of extinction, with populations plummeting more than 80 percent.

«We have great hope that this will be the model that shows the world it is truly possible to bring a species back from the brink of extinction.»