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critically endangered
[ krit-i-klee en-deyn-jerd ]
adjective
- (of a threatened species ) having the highest risk of extinction, as categorized by the IUCN Red List: : CR
The list of critically endangered frog species is alarmingly long.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of critically endangered1
Example Sentences
Kemp's ridley turtles are critically endangered, with only about 7,000 females thought to exist.
Jamie Robins, from the charity Bugslife, said: "Making false claims about critically endangered jumping spiders stopping 'an entire new town' is misleading and incorrect."
Tragedy struck the Yurok tribe’s condor restoration efforts when one of the critically endangered birds succumbed to lead poisoning — an entirely preventable, human-caused threat — just months after being released from the Los Angeles Zoo into the wild.
Two golden lion tamarin twins and a critically endangered gentle lemur are among the latest newborns at the central London attraction.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has imposed sharp restrictions on the crab industry over the last decade in an effort to protect that progress, as well as to safeguard populations of blue whales, gray whales and the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle.
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