India is among the top ten countries threatened with high species losses, according to Worldwatch, a leading Washington-based environmental research organisation. "When the percentages of threatened birds and mammals are calculated, nations in a large 'Asia-Pacific' triangle bounded by India, Japan and New Zealand appear in danger of losing proportionately more species sooner than any other part of our planet," says a Worldwatch report entitled, "Losing Strands in the Web of Life: Vertebrate Declines and the Conservation of Biological Diversity".