Un site de paris en ligne laisse les usagers parier sur quelles espèces animales s'éteindront à cause de la fuite de pétrole dans le Golfe du Mexique.

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#1
English Translation

Gambling site lets users bet on which species will go extinct because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The English translation should be “become” extinct. “Go” extinct is not grammatically correct.

#2

I much prefer “become extinct”, but “go extinct” is in fact perfectly valid and it has been growing in use in recent years, as can be seen on Google Ngrams -
Google Ngram Viewer: become extinct, go extinct