One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.

For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

It is the only known mass extinction of insects.

A Year on the Brink

Thailand on the Precipice

Now, extinction is a different kind of death.

We are a breed on the verge of extinction, Nana said of ethnic Georgians.

The world financial system again stood at the edge of a precipice.

History In 1961, India was on the brink of mass famine.

We could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

Stewart Brand The dawn of de extinction. Are you ready?

De extinction falls in that category.

That technology will be used on de extincted animals.

Political commentators suggested that Ukraine was on the brink of a civil war.

I am almost extinct I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

It was the first de extinction in history.

Of the world's species, 12 of birds, 24 of mammals, and 30 of fish are either vulnerable or in immediate danger of extinction.

On the verge of civil war, Iraq just announced a restructuring of its foreign debt.

Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these species.

Rinchen and Chime had criticized a local police chief for hunting endangered animals.

Hunting depleted one horned rhino numbers to near extinction in the early 20th century.

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Shifa Gardi reporting from the Mosul frontline on 25 February. She was killed the same day in a bomb explosion.

Endangered Faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future.

It is predicted, however, that by 2030 up to 45 50 of these languages are likely to suffer from extinction.

I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered.

Central Asian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and currently facing extinction.

The Fed cannot even provide credit to specific regions, let alone states on the verge of bankruptcy (for example, California).

But it moved too rapidly, making acquisitions in the United States and Europe that were financially draining, so that it nearly went bankrupt.

And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are posed on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.

In the process, he transformed a country that was in the grip of drug barons and on the verge of becoming a failed state.

Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

Several fish species have been driven to the edge of extinction and some, such as the disturbed Tokios coral reef formations in the Indian Ocean, are effectively lost.

CAMBRIDGE People often ask if regulators and legislators have fixed the flaws in the financial system that took the world to the brink of a second Great Depression.

Ironically, it is the German government s loose talk that has brought Europe to the brink of another debt crisis.

In fact, China already experienced the impact of deleveraging late last year, when the European financial system seemed on the brink of collapse.

Third, the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, which was on the brink of toppling even before North Korea s actions, is threatening to disintegrate. A number of small and mid sized powers will now ask themselves a radically new question if North Korea can be a nuclear power, why not us?

With the recent technological advances, where paper newspapers are going extinct because people read them online, this personable touch is rare to find.

Nearly all animal and plant species that have lived on Earth are now extinct, and extinction appears to be the ultimate fate of all species.

Despite the added emphasis for conservation, there is no indication that the extinctions that began with the arrival of humans have come to an end.

Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous population suffered near extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas.

In 1996, when Pakistan was near bankruptcy and contemplating default, I went to Beijing as the country s finance minister to ask for help.

Those scenes return as if from a nightmare children massacred inside burning churches, mobs using machetes at will in city slums, a country on the brink of breakdown.

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

About seven years ago, they faced extinction, because Israel announced it would build a separation barrier, and part of this barrier would be built on top of the village.