Sentences with phrase «near extinction after»

The breed was saved from near extinction after World War II through the friendship of two concerned Norwegians, but even today it is an extremely rare dog.

Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild.

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Once the climate started to improve, after 70,000 years ago, we came back from this near - extinction event.

In many ways the rise of the new state of Israel is the modern counterpart of the use of the idiom of resurrection to express in metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinction.

A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near - extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus

Grizzly bears were classified in 1975 as threatened in the continental United States after nearing extinction from hunting, trapping and poisoning.

This poster by Peter Hodgson highlights the crux of BirdLife International's Albatross campaign — populations are nearing extinction because of deaths caused when the birds accidentally eat fishing hooks left in bait or discarded after fishing trips.

Just like this California condor, which — though teetering on the edge of extinction — still soars near the Grand Canyon in Arizona and in the state it was named after.

And after shrinking almost to extinction, the smaller midsize segment is making a comeback, with the Ford Ranger returning on the heels of the return of the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon joining the Nissan Frontier, Toyota Tacoma and crossover - based Honda Ridgeline, which will add a hybrid option in the near future.

In 1907, after the breed's near extinction, another group worked on preserving the Rottweiler's purity and improve on its working qualities.

Despite its value, the breed faced near - extinction in the mid to late 18th century with the collapse of the Scottish nobility after the battle of Culloden and the Jacobite rebellion but was saved by enthusiasts Archibald and Duncan McNeill.

Day by day, nearing the end of extinction, these people managed to create memory after memory, adventure after adventure, and as we moved on to the «reality» of things, the year 2012 for them was unarguably traveling... like it's the end of the world.

The protection of these winter breeding grounds has been a key factor in the remarkable recovery of this species after near - extinction that was the result of commercial whaling, which took part along the Pacific Coast and even inside these very lagoons.

Elephant seals were hunted to near extinction, but, after 150 years, they began returning to Point Reyes, and now the population of the colony here grows about 16 % a year.

The story picks up four years after the conclusion of Resistance 2, humanity is near extinction and Joe has been vilified and discharged from the army for killing the hero Hale, and the new protagonist is doing his best to live in peace with his family and other survivors.

After focusing so much lately on endangered species, it was especially refreshing to study her painting called «Back» — a collection of animals and plants that were near extinction, or thought to be gone already, but that have reappeared or revived.

If American courts won't touch the people who destroyed a third of all US wealth, what makes anybody think they'll go after the purveyors of near term human extinction?

For now at least, as the first of 32 Eastern Black Rhinos are released to their homeland after their ancestors were hunted to near extinction, things are finally looking up.