Hunting and habitat loss drove the passenger pigeon to extinction. Martha, the last captive, died in 1914.
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The Tasmanian thylacine was hunted to extinction by farmers and for its fur. The last captive thylacine died in 1936.
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South African plains zebras were quagga. The late 19th century saw its flesh and hide hunted to extinction. Quagga died in 1883.
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The Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain were home to the bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The first wild goat species went extinct in 2000.
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The Baiji was a freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze River in China. It was declared functionally extinct in 2006 due to pollution, overfishing, and habitat degradation.
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Hawaiian crow Alalā was indigenous. In 2002, habitat loss, predation, and sickness killed it. The species is being reintroduced through captive breeding.
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