81.   France agreed last month to boost its controls on illegal trade in animals on a list of threatened species.

82.   Executive director Syd Shea said the threatened species will benefit from every sale of a chocolate Bush Bilby through a major supermarket chain.

83.   The US government proposed to list the coho salmon as a threatened species, but environmentalists said the effort was not strong enough.

84.   The zoo is also engaged in the most ambitious breeding programme in the region, involving catching threatened species, breeding them and releasing them back into nature.

85.   New Zealand is fighting attempts by the World Conservation Union to list profitable tuna species as internationally threatened species, Fisheries Ministry official Phil Major said Thursday.

86.   Muluzi said liberals were the most threatened species in Africa and were found mostly in prisons or in exile.

87.   Reports that the albacore, big-eye, and yellowfin tunas were also being considered as internationally threatened species surprised Major.

88.   The drought, with its resultant loss of wildlife and crops, led the government to curb hunting nationwide to protect threatened species.