Overharvesting encourages extinction and is most likely to affect overharvesting encourages extinction and is most likely to affect animals that occupy a broad ecological niche edge-adapted species large animals with low intrinsic reproductive rates most organisms that live in the oceans' coral reefs

Overharvesting encourages extinction and is most likely to affect the large animals with low intrinsic reproductive rates. Overharvesting is among the activities threatening the global biodiversity, together with pollution, introduced species, habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation. For example in the marine environments, overharvesting or overfishing leads to depletion of some species to very low numbers and drives others to extinction.