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Synonyms for extinction

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Synonyms for extinction

no longer active

no longer in existence

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the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

complete annihilation

a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

the act of extinguishing

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Disposing a petition by CWEL, the NGT said that it is important to note that western side of Rajaji National park has the potential to support a minimum of 30 tigers but attitude of MOEF and NHAI, tigers are getting locally extinct.
The disappearance of lakes can have profound implications for people, ecosystems, and wildlife--species can become locally extinct, for example, and community livelihoods can be compromised.
Great apes are already locally extinct in several African nations.
This narrow national lakeshore is the southernmost range for the endangered Karner blue butterfly, now extirpated (locally extinct) in Ontario due to habitat loss.
Two key native predators are locally extinct: Powerful Owls took possums from tree canopies while Spot-tailed Quolls took possums from within trees.
'Locally extinct' fish discovered spawning in the Grand Canyon
Dr Dookia and Mishra are now relying on the existing list to identify which of them still reside in Delhi, how many of them have flown out or become locally extinct.
Give yourself credit if you can list and recognize American brook lamprey, gizzard shad, brook trout, red-fin pickerel, chain pickerel, lake chub, eastern silvery minnow, golden shiner, bridle shiner, common shiner, spot-tail shiner, northern red-belly dace, black-nose dace, long-nose dace, creed chub, fallfish, long-nose sucker, white sucker, creek chubsucker, brown bullhead, trout-perch (locally extinct), burbot, banded killifish, white perch, banded sunfish, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed, swamp darter, tasselated darter, yellow perch and slimy sculpin.
He said: "A very high percentage in any given area of bustards and cranes were being wiped out - literally every kilometre along the cable routes was littered with dead birds, and there was a danger of them becoming locally extinct.
"Our work has so far found six species not hitherto known to be present in the Gulf and this should be a wake-up call because had we not done our surveys, some species could have become locally extinct before they were even known to exist."
Many species are already locally extinct. India had over 20,000 varieties of rice.
Finding Monkeys an 'Emotional Moment' When the national park was formed in 2005, there had been no recent sightings of brown spider monkeys, and the species was considered locally extinct.
In some parts of Wales, ring ouzels have become locally extinct.
By 1992, just 19 white rhino remained, while the black rhino was classified as 'locally extinct'.
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