Many of these are endemic to Japan and many are threatened with extinction.

FORBES: Japan's Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty

Ninety species of parrot are threatened with extinction and zoos worldwide are working hard to try to save them.

BBC: Brazil hunts for unique lost bird

Already, 17, 000 plant and animal species are threatened with extinction (IUCN, 2009).

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

This weekend's Grammy Awards telecast comes at a time when the music industry's labels are threatened with extinction faced with a brave new world of consumer choices and the Internet.

NPR: If You Could Vote, Who Would Win A Grammy?

They declined to just a few hundred over the next decade and are now threatened with extinction.

ECONOMIST: Environment

Another, paradoxical, reason may be that Jews in America are now threatened with extinction, not by persecution, but through assimilation and intermarriage.

ECONOMIST: History

Polar bears have been listed under Appendix II of the CITES accords, which applies to species that are not currently threatened with extinction but may face it without restrictions on the trade of their body parts.

CNN: World rejects new protections for polar bears

Appendix II lists species which are not necessarily now threatened with extinction but which may become so unless trade is closely controlled.

BBC: Cites meeting votes to protect Oceanic whitetip shark