overhunted

Also their relatively low numbers concern me, as species that occupy the top of the biomass pyramid their numbers are naturally low, and thus they can very easily be overhunted.

On A Rocky Mountain Grizzly Hunt 2009

Also their relatively low numbers concern me, as species that occupy the top of the biomass pyramid their numbers are naturally low, and thus they can very easily be overhunted.

On A Rocky Mountain Grizzly Hunt 2009

Someone who does not have access to private hunting land but dumps a bucket of corn on some overbrowsed and overhunted public land, where legal to do so, is no less of a hunter than the guy who tills, plows, plants and fertilizes his high priced, biologically engineered clover patch and then hunts it or the guy who plants corn, only to leave it stand for the deer he hopes to shoot.

Food Plots Vs. Baiting 2009

Someone who does not have access to private hunting land but dumps a bucket of corn on some overbrowsed and overhunted public land, where legal to do so, is no less of a hunter than the guy who tills, plows, plants and fertilizes his high priced, biologically engineered clover patch and then hunts it or the guy who plants corn, only to leave it stand for the deer he hopes to shoot.

Food Plots Vs. Baiting 2009

Indeed, terrapins in U.S. coastal areas had been overhunted to the point that cooks were forced to seek turtles from more distant waters.

Matthew Jacob: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio and Turtle Soup? Matthew Jacob 2011

However, many species have been overhunted and have migrated from the country due to conflict-related disturbance.

Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of armed conflict in Africa 2008

However, they have been exterminated in some areas (such as in parts of eastern Zaire) where the human population is dense, the land fully cultivated, and the wildlife overhunted.

15 Agouti 1991

This is when something is overhunted so it can't replenish itself as fast as it is being used.

Durangoherald.com 2010

Their community lands have been overhunted, and are missing favored species like peccary, tapir, and Spix's guan.

Mongabay.com News 2010

The largest seabird in that area of the world, the short-tailed albatross almost went extinct 100 years ago after the birds were overhunted for their feathers.

Scientific American 2010