"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.
While not the only process at work, eruptive activity played the primary role in accelerating retreat and as a consequence in glacier extinction.
"Impact craters like this give us clues into how the Earth's crust is recycled and the speed of erosion, and may be implicated in episodes of widespread extinction of animals in the geological past, " Pratt said.
Wolves in the wild in Scotland were thought to have been hunted to extinction in the 1700s.
"The fate of the European bison provides an example of the way in which a species may be brought to the brink of extinction in a very short time, and then saved only through great efforts, " says Dr. Zbigniew Krasinski of Poland's Bialowieza National Park.
"The public phones found in telephone booths resist extinction, although finding one in working order can be time consuming, " he said.
Some poorly sourced reports placed the earlier number as low as 5, 000 animals world-wide, and in 1965, top scientists reported that extinction was in sight.
Bitterns recolonised the UK in 1911, when they were found breeding again in the Norfolk Broads, but were pushed towards extinction again in this country in the 1990s.
In 2005 that country's government declared the species in danger of extinction, and banned imports.
Charles Darwin wrote of extinction in his landmark On the Origin of Species.
According to the health ministry, measures taken since then mean the disease is in its "extinction phase".
Lake sturgeon were once plentiful but were fished to near extinction in many places by the early 20th century.
In 1911 the society announced that its conservation work had succeeded and buffalo were no longer in danger of extinction.
But the overall eel population is not in danger of extinction (though some individual species are), so the authorities decline to protect them.
The capercaillie is big enough to be nicknamed the "horse of the woods" and was hunted to extinction in the late 18th century.
The iconic California condor was on the brink of extinction in 1987 when the surviving 22 birds in the wild were taken into captivity.
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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.
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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By "they", I refer to the thinkers and tacticians at the Treasury who are suggesting that Scottish banknotes may face extinction in the event of independence.
Nearly all expressed some anxiety that a cherished media form was in danger of extinction and a measure of relief that perhaps there was still hope after all.
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.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species gave warning last summer that over-fishing had put sturgeon in danger of extinction: 90% of the world's caviare comes from the Caspian.
Loss of habitat and prey, coupled with unsubstantiated fears inspired by children's' books and myths about the danger predators pose to human life has led to their near extinction in Europe.
Today, approximately 17, 000 species are in danger of extinction.
Founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders, AMD has always teetered on the edge of extinction, in part because of its unusual business model.
In two years, elephants went from imminent danger of extinction to badly in need of contraception (the facts did not change, the reporting did).
Yet as things stand, our impotence in the face of our extinction means that a vast amount of medical resources are expended in the last few weeks of people's lives purely in order to render our deaths insensible and insensate.
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