Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.
VOA: standard.2010.01.11
He builds guitars from Appalachian spruce and nearly-extinct Brazilian Rosewood.
VOA: standard.2010.07.06
By the mid-1890s, thanks to demand for their meat, skins and bones by Native Americans and white men alike, they were nearlyextinct.
Far from discovering the Mississippi in 1542, Hernando de Soto's main claim to fame was lending his name nearly 400 years later to a now-extinct Chrysler family sedan.