31.   Several turtle species are threatened.

32.   The high prices Asian dealers pay to supply a thriving traditional medicine market threatens other species.

33.   The reserve provides shelter for millions of migratory birds and houses threatened species such as lynx and imperial eagle.

34.   The species has been threatened with extinction because of illegal hunting for its skin.

35.   Indian government officials say poaching has become a major problem because the killers target male tuskers, creating a gender imbalance that is beginning to threaten the species.

36.   It has since leaked thousands of tonnes of oil, ruining fisheries, causing environmental damage and threatening rare species of wildlife along the Sea of Japan.

37.   Elephant overpopulation is particularly destructive to the closed natural environment of the park and the damage the pachyderms wreak on the habitat threatens other species as well.

38.   It has since leaked thousands of tonnes of oil, ruining fisheries, causing other environmental damage and threatening rare species of wildlife along the Sea of Japan.

39.   Only Brazil, Philippines, the United States and Colombia are home to more threatened species of birds.

40.   The Chilean government had invoked the UN agreement on sea rights that provides that navigation should not endanger the environment and threaten living species.