However, in recent decades the numbers of women with the weaving and embroidery skills at their command has severely declined to the extent that traditional Li textile techniques are exposed to the risk of extinction and are in urgent need of protection.
But some kinds of damage, such as extinction, are beyond costing, and others are hard to estimate.
Ninety species of parrot are threatened with extinction and zoos worldwide are working hard to try to save them.
Once close to extinction, goshawks are known as "the phantoms of the forest" because of their elusiveness despite their size.
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This small forest enclave is also home to hundreds of plant species, some of which, like the kyami tree(ph), are facing extinction in the Caribbean.
In Britain, where better records have been kept, more than half the native bumblebee species either have become extinct or are facing extinction in the next few decades.
Any breeder across the country would be arrested and charged with neglect or cruelty for things that these organizations do every single day, yet the very laws that restrict breeders to the point of extinction of some breeds are written with exemptions for anyoen falling under a non profit banner.
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Aside from the seven bird species that are now saved from extinction, over 100 families in Prek Toal, including former bird collectors, are benefiting from the various activities in the project.
Many of these are endemic to Japan and many are threatened with extinction.
Three species on the Asian subcontinent are close to extinction after eating animal carcasses containing traces of the anti-inflammatory diclofenac.
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Already, 17, 000 plant and animal species are threatened with extinction (IUCN, 2009).
In addition, the central California sea otter populations are vulnerable to extinction.
"We are facing an extinction crisis, " said Jane Smart, director of the biodiversity conservation group with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Many of the stores which dominated our town centres are fast approaching extinction, and the result has been to leave our high streets resembling ghost towns.
The only victims were the broadcasters, who were set free too late to make use of their new competitive technologies and who now are limping into extinction.
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This weekend's Grammy Awards telecast comes at a time when the music industry's labels are threatened with extinction faced with a brave new world of consumer choices and the Internet.
The 35 Hotspots that we have identified have by far the highest levels of extinction risk, and they are the places where we will most likely see total ecosystem collapse if appropriate measures are not taken.
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They declined to just a few hundred over the next decade and are now threatened with extinction.
"These measures are needed to avoid extinction of cod in the North Sea, " said a commission spokesman.
Another, paradoxical, reason may be that Jews in America are now threatened with extinction, not by persecution, but through assimilation and intermarriage.
But the overall eel population is not in danger of extinction (though some individual species are), so the authorities decline to protect them.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Up to half of the world's magnolia species are in danger of extinction, according to a new study by conservationists.
"Animals like the forest elephant and chimpanzee are in danger of extinction in West Africa in 10 years according to scientific experts globally, " he added.
The Global Amphibian Assessment has warned that a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of extinction, many because of the chytrid fungus.
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The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reviews more than 60, 000 species, concluding that 25% of mammals on the list are at risk of extinction.
Today, approximately 17, 000 species are in danger of extinction.
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