The Livonian language is spoken by fewer than 100 individuals as a second language, and is understood to be fast approaching extinction.

The primates are a valuable form, approaching extinction.

Brush turkeys are fairly common nowadays, but in the 1930s it was supposed that the bird was approaching extinction.

These conifers have been collected over the last 15 years from a number of Southern Hemisphere countries where they are approaching extinction.

Like virtually all the newly liberated prisoners, he continues to fight in the belief that the Soviet internal empire is rapidly approaching extinction.

In some cases, the agency says, some heavily fished species are approaching not only commercial, but biological extinction.

Thereafter it declined rather gradually, approaching extinction around generation 1,000.

That colourful and noisy species which bestrode the '80s City landscape has appeared to be approaching extinction this year.

As time went on, we, too, were dying and the race fast approaching extinction, when the Great Truth was revealed to us, that mind is all.

Leonese was spoken in the past in a much larger area; however, it is now approaching extinction.