Sentences with phrase «nearing extinction because»

Endangered species such as the Florida Panther are nearing extinction because of the numbers of big cats hit by automobiles each year.

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.

Not exact matches

The apparent extinction of this group of pachycormids at or near the end of the Cretaceous is also intriguing, because it occurs shortly before the earliest records of large - bodied, ram filter - feeding chondrichthyans (rhincodontids, cetorhinids, mobulids) in the earliest Paleogene (Shimada, 2007).

In particular, many of the plant populations predicted to persist in the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinction.

This possible extinction event is commonly called the «Sixth Mass Extinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years agoextinction event is commonly called the «Sixth Mass Extinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years agoExtinction,» because biodiversity crashes of similar magnitude have happened previously only five times in the 550 million years that multi-cellular life has been abundant on Earth: near the end of the Ordovician (~ 443 million years ago), Devonian (~ 359 million years ago), Permian (251 million years ago), Triassic (~ 200 million years ago), and Cretaceous (~ 66 million years ago) Periods.