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Write the names of a few species that went extinct due to over-exploitation. 

 

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Over-exploitation of natural resources, habitat destruction, and excessive hunting have led to the extinction of several species.

The Steller's Sea Cow was a large, herbivorous marine mammal who because of their large size and thick blubber, was an easy target of hunters and fur traders because they were slow-moving and harmless became extinct within just 27 years of its discovery.

Due to excessive hunting by sailors and predation by introduced species, The Dodo became extinct in the late 1600s. In 1914, because of mass hunting and habitat loss, the once numbering in billions passenger pigeon became extinct.

The Caribbean monk seal which was hunted for its oil became extinct in the 1950s. Another tragic loss was the Tasmanian Tiger which was hunted aggressively due to its perceived threat to livestock in 1936.

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