There's always the emphasis on saving animals, but actually if you don't save the plants then everything will go extinct.

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However there are winners and losers: some species are adapting, which gives us hope, but others suffer and will decline, and still others will go extinct.

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Despite the small number of genes which made it through, the Neanderthals did go extinct in Europe, western Asia and Siberia - for reasons which remain unclear.

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Which species will go extinct?

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Remove 200-year-old Amazon mahogany or Congolese sapele trees and the species may go locally extinct.

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"I think botanical gardens can provide a good insurance policy, by bringing them into cultivation as a way of making sure they don't go completely extinct, but we want them to be secure in the wild as well, " she said.

CNN: Half of magnolias face extinction

Not many years ago hard liquor seemed destined to go the way of some now virtually extinct soft drinks such as Moxie.

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And, yes, the coral reefs might become extinct, and people from the Seychelles might go hungry.

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