critically endangered
Frequency: 8.520.1 per million words
Used to describe a species facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The snow leopard is now critically endangered due to habitat loss.
- Scientists warn that climate change has left polar bears critically endangered.
- The Sumatran rhinoceros remains one of the world's most critically endangered species.
- Conservation efforts are urgently needed to protect critically endangered tigers.
- The vaquita porpoise has become critically endangered with fewer than 30 individuals left.
- Many coral reef ecosystems are now considered critically endangered.
- The black rhinoceros was classified as critically endangered in the 1990s.
- Deforestation has left the orangutan critically endangered in the wild.
- The California condor was once critically endangered but has slowly recovered.
- Marine biologists report that several whale species are critically endangered.