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- noun
Hunting atunsustainable levels
Etymologies
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Examples
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An IUCN report says that several Asian species are under serious siege, as elsewhere, the victims of overhunting, habitat loss, invasive feral animals and viral diseases.
'Year Of The Rabbit' Actually Threatens Furry Animal AP 2011
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(Soundbite of laughter) FLATOW: In your book, you also compare over-milking fans to overhunting in the late the Pleistocene era.
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I, in hindsight, came close to overhunting the cottontails in the woodlot out behind my house last year.
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An IUCN report says that several Asian species are under serious siege, as elsewhere, the victims of overhunting, habitat loss, invasive feral animals and viral diseases.
'Year Of The Rabbit' Actually Threatens Furry Animal AP 2011
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I, in hindsight, came close to overhunting the cottontails in the woodlot out behind my house last year.
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His intention was to protect the mule deer from overhunting by humans and predation by natural enemies.
Feinstein Right: Aerial Wolf Management is NOT Fair Chase 2009
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You should rotate between a few different spots that way you aren't overhunting any of them.
bad hunting season 2009
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You should rotate between a few different spots that way you aren't overhunting any of them.
bad hunting season 2009
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His intention was to protect the mule deer from overhunting by humans and predation by natural enemies.
Feinstein Right: Aerial Wolf Management is NOT Fair Chase 2009
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According to this creed — which emerged when big-game populations in the U.S. were dwindling amid overhunting — the hunt, rather than the kill, is the objective.
Hunters Exchange Fire Over What Lauren Etter 2010
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