The Appendix lists species which may become threatened with extinction unless trade is closely controlled.
Many of these are endemic to Japan and many are threatened with extinction.
Festus Mogae, the president of Botswana, has said that the virus threatens his country with extinction.
She soon came to epitomise a creature now threatened with extinction: the public intellectual.
They declined to just a few hundred over the next decade and are now threatened with extinction.
Ninety species of parrot are threatened with extinction and zoos worldwide are working hard to try to save them.
All five species (three in Asia) were declared endangered or threatened with extinction.
Appendix II lists species which are not necessarily now threatened with extinction but which may become so unless trade is closely controlled.
Already, 17, 000 plant and animal species are threatened with extinction (IUCN, 2009).
Another, paradoxical, reason may be that Jews in America are now threatened with extinction, not by persecution, but through assimilation and intermarriage.
The U.S. had proposed moving polar bears to Appendix I, which applies to species threatened with extinction and effectively bans trade in their body parts.
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.
Not that automaton birds were ever threatened with extinction.
The floor-trading profession is threatened with extinction elsewhere.
Polar bears have been listed under Appendix II of the CITES accords, which applies to species that are not currently threatened with extinction but may face it without restrictions on the trade of their body parts.
Now, JC Penney is threatened with extinction.
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Scientists in New Zealand say they have linked the modern-day decline of a common forest shrub with the local extinction of two pollinating birds over a century ago.
It suggests that the Internet Age is now about to end, with a mass extinction of dot-coms as sweeping and complete as the one of reptiles at the end of the Jurassic.
But Spielberg has indicated boredom with action films in some recent interviews, and though no explanation was offered for the delay, aside from a statement from Spielberg's rep that it wasn't ready and was too expensive to move forward without a polished script, the "Lincoln" filmmaker may simply not be as enamored with the brutal extinction story as he once was.
With many predicting the extinction of thousands of species, Bob Smith, a researcher in conservation at the University of Kent in Britain, argues that targeting individual species is too narrow.
Mentions Walter Alvarez and the Alvarez hypothesis, which wreaked havoc with the uniformitarian idea of extinction.
The ocean is a complex web of marine life, with many species being driven to extinction year after year.
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They wanted to know whether there was a connection between the magnitude of an extinction and the speed with which the ecosystem bounced back afterwards.
But I ask because I am merely wondering whether we sometimes forget a grim reality of the story of life on Earth - that extinction has always been with us.
The question is one of the most hotly contested in palaeontology and revolves around an apparent gap in the fossil record immediately prior to the K-T boundary - the distinct layer of geological sediments separating the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, and associated with a massive asteroid impact and global extinction event.
Recent research suggests that there was, in fact, no impact in the North Sea at all, but the Ukrainian site does appear to be the result of a genuine collision that took place at the time of the dinosaur extinction and could therefore be connected with Shiva.
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