Meaning & use
overhunting
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The practice of hunting a species at a rate faster than it can reproduce, leading to a decline in its population.
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Overhunting drove the passenger pigeon to extinction within a few decades.
Conservationists warned that overhunting could wipe out the region's elephant population.
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A term commonly used in ecology and conservation to describe human-driven population decline through excessive hunting.
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