Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close

The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush withextinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.

(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction; its numbers