"zoocide" meaning in English

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          "text": "Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ...",
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          "text": "When the bounty system alone failed to kill all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ...",
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          "text": "Our proposal is that we speak of zoocide in cases where animals are systematically put to death in large numbers. Zoocide cannot be placed on the same level ...",
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