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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': Humans.

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* Young Spock uses the exact same phrase in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' [[spoiler:after his planet was destroyed, with roughly 10,000 out of 6 ''billion'' escaping. However many were in space at the time, that's gonna leave a dent.]]

** By ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', [[PoisonousPerson Grimer and Muk]] have become this thanks to improvements to the environment -- such as a decrease in industrial waste, which they eat for sustenance. Their Alolan offshoots, which adapted to eating garbage instead, seem better off, however.

* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', [[spoiler: Moka and Kurumu]] view [[spoiler: [[WitchSpecies Witches]]]] this way, and so they ask Tsukune not to be too hard on [[spoiler: Yukari]]. It's later implied that this is also true for many if not most monstrous species, including [[spoiler: Moka's, Kurumu's, and Mizore's]].

* Young Spock uses the exact same phrase in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' [[spoiler: after his planet was destroyed, with roughly 10,000 out of 6 ''billion'' escaping. However many were in space at the time, that's gonna leave a dent.]]

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* The French novel ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'' [[AfterTheEnd takes place after]] WorldWarIII. As such, all of Emmanuel's livestock are now in danger of extinction, in particular his horses. The only surviving animals were a cave used as a "nursery" and all but one were pregnant. The pig and cow have male offspring and could inbreed to survive. The horse gives birth to a filly, so as far as Emmanuel knows there are three mares left in the world and the horse is doomed to extinction. [[spoiler: There are other surviving animals. Shortly after, Emmanuel captures the region's only stallion, bringing the known horse population to ''four'' and hopefully more in the future]].
* In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: The Swarm'', birdlike shreeves are a protected species. The shreeves eat [[ExplosiveBreeder drog beetles]], keeping their population in check so they don't form a HordeOfAlienLocusts. But shreeves are also very fragile, breed slowly, and are not particularly bright. Legends say that killing just one will upset the delicate ecological balance of Sk'rr and give the beetles an edge. [[spoiler: Zak kills one. On the plus side the legend is exaggerated. On the negative side, someone else has been killing thousands.]]

** Also the Markab, who [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal really did go extinct]] from a plague]]. Humans presumably don't die out from the Drahk plague, but the ones on Earth embody this trope at the start of ''Crusade''.

* Most terrestrial lifeforms in the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' 'verse (marine life is said to have gone completely extinct due to billions of leeches and the occasional ichtyosaur swimming around, not helped by the significantly decreased ocean levels). After a large batch of Xenian lifeforms were teleported onto Earth, a planetary-scale Combine invasion occurred and that's even before the Combine set up their reproduction suppression field which can't be ruled out as being ineffective against anything but humans... If a mini world-war and two decades of global sterility count, then humans might as well be endangered. [[spoiler: At least until the suppression field was shut down and Kleiner urged everyone to "do your part for the revival of our species"]].

* Wyverns are endangered in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''. [[spoiler: It was initially believed that there was only one left in the world.]]

* Young Spock uses the exact same phrase in the new ''{{Film/Star Trek}}'' [[spoiler: after his planet was destroyed, with roughly 10,000 out of 6 ''billion'' escaping. However many were in space at the time, that's gonna leave a dent.]]

* Most terrestrial lifeforms in the ''Half-Life'' verse (marine life is said to have gone completely extinct due to billions of leeches and the occasional ichtyosaur swimming around). After a large batch of Xenian lifeforms were teleported onto Earth, a planetary-scale Combine invasion occurred and that's even before the Combine set up their reproduction suppression field which can't be ruled out as being ineffective against anything but humans... If a mini world-war and two decades of global sterility count, then humans might as well be endangered. [[spoiler: At least until the suppression field was shut down and Kleiner urged everyone to "do your part for the revival of our species"]].

A sapient race in terminal decline - not necessarily imminent enough to make them immediately endangered - is a DyingRace. Compare LastOfHisKind, OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace, WhatMeasureIsANonUnique. Contrast ExplosiveBreeder.

** The Lapras species has been deemed to be one. Due to their high intelligence and relatively powerful nature, humans have over-hunted it to near-extinction. Therefore, the only one you can get in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is from an employee guarding it at Silph Co. Later generations were slightly kinder to it; in the ''Red and Blue'' remakes, it can also be found by Surfing in the Icefall Cave, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (plus Crystal and the remakes) one can be found in Union Cave every Friday, some can be found on Victory Road in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' (plus ''Platinum''), some wild ones are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 and the sequel]] at Village Bridge, and some are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' both in the wild and with one given away. However, while their population appears to be slowly recovering (potentially ''too much'', according to the ''Sun/Moon'' website ), they are still incredibly rare in-game.
** Farfetch'd is stated to have been hunted to near extinction because its meat tastes good when served with the leeks it carries as a weapon.

* In ''Animorphs'', the titular protagonists refer to themselves as this several times.

** The Lapras species has been deemed to be one. Due to their high intelligence and relatively powerful nature, humans have over-hunted it to near-extinction. Therefore, the only one you can get in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is from an employee guarding it at Silph Co. Later generations were slightly kinder to it; in the ''Red and Blue'' remakes, it can also be found by Surfing in the Icefall Cave, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (plus Crystal and the remakes) one can be found in Union Cave every Friday, some can be found on Victory Road in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' (plus ''Platinum''), some wild ones are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 and the sequel]] at Village Bridge, and some are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' both in the wild and with one given away. However, while their population appears to be slowly recovering (potentially ''too much'', according to the Sun/Moon website ), they are still incredibly rare in-game.

** Wild Mudbray are now found only in Alola after once being found all over the world, [[ShownTheirWork a nod to the current rarity of real life wild donkeys and horses]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had a mission for the Planet Express crew to rescue the animals from a planet which was about to be destroyed. That is where they find Leela's "pet" Nibbler. [[spoiler:Nibbler also eats all the endangered animals]].

* Just run a search on the term "endangered species list" and try not to be too depressed. Though you can help by volunteering or making donations to save habitat, provide funding for carers or to buy the animals food.

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', Nobita tries to exploit this trope by using a gadget that turns him into a endangered species, so that he will be protected by everyone instead of being scolded and bullied as usual. However, this [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor backfires spectacularly]] that not only he is now protected as he wished, his house has also been modified into a zoo-like structure where everyone can enter to see his 'ecology', and he himself is later brought to a lab for study. While no such thing as [[TheyWouldCutYouUp cutting him up]] occurs, the experience is still unpleasant for Nobita as he is treated like a Chimpanzee, complete with fruit-only diet and a playroom where a tire swing is the only thing to entertain him.

* One of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'''s authors once drew an {{Anvilicious}} comic about humans being hunted to extinction because their bodies were considered to be a potent cure for hairiness (apparently, they don't have Nair in the future). The last two humans end up stranded on an island where a rare lizard (or salamander) was hunted to extinction by earlier humans.

* OffWhite: There are no more baby humans being born because of the human white spirit's death. The comic implies this may also lead to the fading away of good, because she was the guardian of good, and the extinction of wolves, because they are a brother species.

* In ''Literature/Animorphs'', the titular protagonists refer to themselves as this several times.

* In ''RosarioToVampire'', [[spoiler: Moka and Kurumu]] view [[spoiler: [[WitchSpecies Witches]]]] this way, and so they ask Tsukune not to be too hard on [[spoiler: Yukari]]. It's later implied that this is also true for many if not most monstrous species, including [[spoiler: Moka's, Kurumu's, and Mizore's]].

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* iN ''Literature/Animorphs'', the titular protagonists refer to themselves as this several times.

* iN ''Literature/Animorphs' ', the titular protagonists refer to themselves as this several times.

** In another episode couched as a nature documentary, the Professor appears as the last male member of an EndangeredSpecies of Galapagos giant tortoise, searching for the last female.

* The Buggers, by the end of ''[[EndersGame Ender's Game]]'', have been reduced to a single Queen. Much of ''Speaker for the Dead'' revolves around finding a suitable home for her so she can start a new hive. This is particularly notable because in ''Game'', the Buggers were hated and feared by humans, and it was Ender's own work that led people to regret their (near) genocide.

** The Lapras species has been deemed to be one. Due to their high intelligence and relatively powerful nature, humans have over-hunted it to near-extinction. Therefore, the only one you can get in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is from an employee guarding it at Silph Co. Later generations were slightly kinder to it; in the ''Red and Blue'' remakes, it can also be found by Surfing in the Icefall Cave, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (plus Crystal and the remakes) one can be found in Union Cave every Friday, some can be found on Victory Road in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' (plus ''Platinum''), some wild ones are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 and the sequel]] at Village Bridge, and some are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' both in the wild and with one given away. However, while their population appears to be slowly recovering, they are still incredibly rare in-game.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has the Monoblos, which pretty much exists to underscore that fact that the Hunters' effect on the ecology is actually monitored and kept in check. The Monoblos are endangered, and as such the Guild will never permit targeted hunts and will only sign off on private quests if the specific beast is threatening a population center.

* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series has deemed the Lapras species to be one. Due to their high intelligence and relatively powerful nature, humans have over-hunted it to near-extinction. Therefore, the only one you can get in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is from an employee guarding it at Silph Co. Later generations were slightly kinder to it; in the ''Red and Blue'' remakes, it can also be found by Surfing in the Icefall Cave, in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' (plus Crystal and the remakes) one can be found in Union Cave every Friday, some can be found on Victory Road in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' (plus ''Platinum''), some wild ones are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 and the sequel]] at Village Bridge, and some are available in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' both in the wild and with one given away. However, while their population appears to be slowly recovering, they are still incredibly rare in-game.

* In the ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' franchise, the RuleOfDrama ensures somebody always seems to want to capture a live xenomorph for study rather than exterminate them...

* Wyverns are endangered in FinalFantasyV. [[spoiler: It was initially believed that there was only one left in the world.]]

* A strong theme in the ''{{Oddworld}}'' series. Scrabs and Paramites have been hunted down by Glukkons to make processed food (with Meeches going extinct), Gabbits were hunted down by Vyykers for the wide variety of uses they had with only Munch [[spoiler:and 150 Gabbiar eggs]] left, and Steef were hunted for ''sport'' by Sekto [[spoiler:and of these we only ever see two - Stranger, and Sekto's host body after he's discarded it]].

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': Humans.