facing extinction
Soon to vanish
Facing extinction describes a species, practice, or phenomenon at risk of disappearing entirely.
Most often applied to animals and plants whose populations have declined to critical levels: The mountain gorilla is facing extinction.
Extended to anything threatened with complete elimination: Some say the printed newspaper is facing extinction.
- existential threatPeril to survival itself
- on the brinkAt the threshold
- tipping pointThreshold triggering major change
- ocean acidificationSeawater pH dropping from CO2
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
endangered species · overexploitation · desertification · habitat loss · dying out · conservation efforts · population decline · invasive species · climate change impact · conservation status · critical habitat · woolly mammoth · vanishing act · resource depletion · greenhouse gas emissions · dodo · poaching · endangered languages
- extinctiondodo, died out, passenger pigeon, Tasmanian tiger, thylacine
facing extinctionthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · abundant · proliferating · booming · multiplying
facing extinctionsecure
Protected from harm
safe · protected · out of danger · perpetual · enduring
facing extinctionabundant
Existing in great quantity
plentiful · teeming · ubiquitous · common · widespread
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