Assertion: koala | /r/HasProperty | hunted to extinction
Facets:
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
value: about until
type: TEMPORAL
value: with many as 500,000
type: OTHER
value: for its fur
type: CAUSE
value: for their skin
type: PURPOSE
value: for conservation programs
type: PURPOSE
value: in the early 20th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Although the koala was hunted almost to extinction in the early 20th century, largely for its fur, conservation programs since then have succeeded in increasing populations substantially—to the point where large numbers of koalas in some isolated areas where migration is not possible have needed to be culled or translocated, or else just left to destroy all food trees and then starve.
text: But, about until the 1920’s the koalas were nearly hunted to extinction for their skin; with as many as 500,000 a month being exported.