1.   As elephant populations soar, southern African nations are lobbying to restore the international trade in ivory.

2.   As hoped, the vicuna population soared.

3.   After the Soviet Union collapsed, prison populations soared in Russia, which now shares with the United States the highest per capita rates of incarceration in the world.

4.   After the Soviet Union collapsed, prison populations soared in Russia.

5.   But while the number of tigers continued to plunge, with many poached to feed the market for tiger parts elsewhere in Asia, wolf populations soared.

6.   Crime, including gang-related incidents, sank as the city population soared this decade.

7.   Deer are in plentiful supply in upstate New York and the beaver population has soared out of control, causing damage to streams and forests.

8.   Deer populations have soared nationwide, accounting for half a million car accidents a year.

9.   Heavier rainfall creates more standing water for some kinds of mosquitoes to breed in, and populations soar.

10.   Poisons and traps that used to keep these predators under control are no longer legal, and coyote populations have predictably soared.