1.   The FAO plan to encourage the rearing of endangered breeds in their native lands, and to establish banks of frozen sperm and embryos.

2.   And, in a push-button age, cable car gripmen are becoming an endangered breed.

3.   A female rhinoceros of a critically endangered breed is in the latter stages of an apparently healthy pregnancy at the Kansas City Zoo.

4.   Three white tigers have been born in captivity in a zoo here as part of an international effort to save the endangered breed, the curator said.