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* Music/JohnZorn's album with The Dreamers, "0'0" (2009) refers to the Hawaiian songbird family Mohoidae, which was threatened with extinction back then and has now effectively gone extinct.

* It's mentioned at several points in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' that palistrom trees (which are vital in witch society due to their wood being used for carving [[{{Familiar}} palismen]] have become increasingly rare from to over harvesting in recent years [[spoiler:due to Emperor Belos eating palismen to extend his lifespan]] and the few trees that still exist are kept under heavy guard. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the species has managed to make a recovery thanks to the efforts of Dell Clawthorne and the Bat Queen by the time of the epilogue.]]

* Throughout the early ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games, there exists a creature known as a Whacka, which were implied in the series' lore to having been poached by hunters into near-extinction because the Whacka's bumps they drop are extremely powerful healing items in battle. Russ T. even speculates that the Whacka you meet at Mt. Rugged is TheLastOfHisKind, assuming that the Whackas found in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''[='s=] Keelhaul Key and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''[='s=] Downtown of Crag aren't different members of the species. Unfortunately, VideoGameCrueltyPotential is rife in the early Paper Mario games and you can actually accelerate their extinction by whacking them for Whacka's bumps as well.

* Throughout the early ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games, there exists a creature known as a Whacka, which were implied in the series' lore to having been poached by hunters into near-extinction because the Whacka's bumps they drop are extremally powerful healing items in battle. Russ T. even speculates that the Whacka you meet at Mt. Rugged is TheLastOfHisKind, assuming that the Whackas found in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''[='s=] Keelhaul Key and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''[='s=] Downtown of Crag aren't different members of the species. Unfortunately, VideoGameCrueltyPotential is rife in the early Paper Mario games and you can actually accelerate their extinction by whacking them for Whacka's bumps as well.

* Throughout the early ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games, there exists a creature known as a Whacka, which were implied in the series' lore to having been poached by hunters into near-extinction because the Whacka's bumps they drop are extremally powerful healing items in battle. Russ T. even speculates that the Whacka you meet at Mt. Rugged is TheLastOfHisKind, assuming that the Whackas found in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'''s Keelhaul Key and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'''s Downtown of Crag aren't different members of the species. Unfortunately, VideoGameCrueltyPotential is rife in the early Paper Mario games and you can actually accelerate their extinction by whacking them for Whacka's bumps as well.

* 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, curb poaching and not buying certain products like ivory and unsustainable palm oil.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has the Monoblos, which pretty much exists to underscore 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. This is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration reflected in gameplay]], quests to hunt the Monoblos will only ever appear in the offline singleplayer "village" quests, and never in the online "guild" quests.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' backstory, the Hiigarans.

* Webcomic/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.
* Webcomic/{{Tripp}}: The [[HumanAliens Narvans]], according to [[TinCanRobot Stats]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' had Prof. Birdbrain discover that his species, the blue-bottomed booby, is one and thus is legally protected. He uses this newly-discovered status to go on a crime spree, but ends up foiling himself when he clones a monster booby bird, thus making him no longer endangered and revoking his status.

* One of ''Manga/{{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.

* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', [[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]].

* The Buggers, by the end of ''Literature/EndersGame'', have been reduced to a single Queen. Much of ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' 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.
** Also note that as the Buggers have a hive mind, the Queen and her hive are all considered to be one individual, so it's a case of [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]].
* Pern's dragons were placed in a similar position during the Long Intervals, in that the species' survival depended entirely on the health and fecundity of a single queen.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': dragons.
* 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 in 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.]]
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', there are no new dwarves being born, due to a mysterious illness that has something to do with there being no dragons in Hurog anymore. It doesn't seem to actually kill them, just causing the population to shrink.
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', the titular protagonists refer to themselves as this several times.
* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', humans are explicitly referred to as an endangered species due to the fact that dragons have become the dominant species.
* In ''Literature/QuestForFire'', our own species ''Homo sapiens'' are in decline due to competition and [[CannibalTribe predation]] from physically stronger archaic species of man. [[CaptainObvious Looks like we got better though]]. The even more endangered [[PantheraAwesome cave lions]] did not fare so well.

* 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]].

* In ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection'', some humans want to keep at least one Graboid alive.

* The previously detested SmallAnnoyingCreature or MonsterOfTheWeek becomes DracoInLeatherPants, TheWoobie, etc. in the view of Bs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'': Humans themselves after the hostile Drej destroyed the entire planet, leaving the survivors scattered among the cosmos.
* One episode of the WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys had a tortoise that was [[ThereIsAnother (almost)]] the LastOfHisKind. Sadly TruthInTelevision, as he was based on a real tortoise called Lonesome George. [[note]]Sadly, Lonesome George died in 2012.[[/note]]
* An episode of WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy had Prof. Birdbrain discover that his species, the blue-bottomed booby, is one and thus is legally protected. He uses this newly-discovered status to go on a crime spree, but ends up foiling himself when he clones a monster booby bird, thus making him no longer endangered and revoking his status.

* 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 a fruit-only diet and a playroom which consists of only a tire swing.
* 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.

* 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]].

* Every species from Krypton is an endangered one, if not already extinct in most Franchise/{{Superman}} stories.

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

* One episode of the WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys had a tortoise that was [[ThereIsAnother (almost)]] the LastOfHisKind. Sadly TruthInTelevision, as he was based on a real tortoise called Lonesome George.