"If people continue with this spate of killing nesting turtles and destroying their eggs, they'll be destroying generations of turtles and their offspring and pushing these wonderful reptiles into extinction, " says project officer of the Ghana Wildlife Society, Gerrard Osei Boakye.
"These measures are needed to avoid extinction of cod in the North Sea, " said a commission spokesman.
Every newspaper is experimenting like mad these days, hoping to avoid extinction, but only the Post manages to wrong-foot itself just about every time it breaks its routine.
Yet, incredibly, conservationists warn these ancient animals could be within a decade of extinction.
Many of these are endemic to Japan and many are threatened with extinction.
Shrewd move: The refinement and sense of proportion in these reds should shame the last anti-California wine snob into extinction.
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Human activity, however, especially in the form of agriculture, deforestation, hunting and pollution, has inexorably reduced the numbers of these species, leaving many of them teetering on the brink of extinction.
And it is hoped that there will be numerous things to find from these discoveries, including further clues as to what caused the untimely extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago - the most prominent theory being that it was the result of an asteroid hitting the Earth on what is now the coast of Mexico.
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In other parts of Africa, primal scenes like these are almost impossible to witness because the animals have been hunted to near extinction.
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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