In the late 1970s aggressive poaching took the rhino to the brink of extinction.
First, it is nearly always rooted in the experience of death and the fear of extinction.
That is a dangerous gamble when several stocks are at immediate risk of extinction.
It was the development of an open Internet that started AOL down the path of extinction.
Mentions Walter Alvarez and the Alvarez hypothesis, which wreaked havoc with the uniformitarian idea of extinction.
Indeed, 30 years ago, extensive deforestation left the tree on the brink of extinction.
Yet, incredibly, conservationists warn these ancient animals could be within a decade of extinction.
In the short term, this strategy helps conservationists by intensifying the perceived threat of extinction.
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.
The findings provide a reference point for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction rates, the researchers say.
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In 1993, Williams ruled against timber interests when the endangered spotted owl was at risk of extinction.
Decades later, this pioneering product is on the brink of extinction, slowly being phased out for the good.
In 1911 the society announced that its conservation work had succeeded and buffalo were no longer in danger of extinction.
On the brink of extinction, Lloyds recapitalised, learned the lesson of prudence, and completely changed the way it does business.
The researchers used the threat to birds as a model for working out the costs of extinction to all species.
New York City Opera, meanwhile, has teetered on the edge of extinction, its board and management accused of hard-heartedness and ineptitude.
Their analysis of extinction speeds over the last 500 years is 12 times greater than during times of relative evolutionary stability.
Endangered species from bald eagles to alligators in Florida's waterways also are clawing their way back from the edge of extinction.
European film-making, driven to the verge of extinction by government subsidies and distribution monopolies, is now showing cheering signs of revival.
More than half of Madagascar's lemurs are on the verge of extinction.
Yet, in a relatively short period of time, humans and their technological arsenal have driven most shark populations to the verge 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.
Edinburgh Zoo said the wild population was in its healthiest state since before World War II, but remained at serious threat 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.
But with a tenth of all bird species and a fifth of mammals on the verge of extinction, cloning is better than nothing.
Recent studies of 79 tropical plants in the Indian Ocean archipelago revealed that more than three quarters of them were at risk of extinction.
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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Brown rats may be a pest in the UK but in South Georgia they are pushing indigenous bird species to the brink of extinction.
The US industry "is fighting for survival and on the brink of extinction from the tidal wave of dumped foreign shrimp", Mr Gordon said.
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