Assertion: thylacine | /r/HasProperty | close to extinction
Facets:
value: on the australian mainland
type: LOCATION
value: by the time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Thylacines were already close to extinction on the Australian mainland by the time European settlers arrived in the late 1700s, but they continued to survive on the island of Tasmania — at least until the government began putting bounties on dead thylacines, blaming them for attacks on sheep.