11.   The badger is a protected species covered by legislation.

12.   Although laws require commercial fishermen to release protected species, experts claim most sharks die before they can be released.

13.   And, although a protected species, sea dragons are preyed on by poachers.

14.   Because the redtail is a protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Harris was in violation of federal law.

15.   Aiming for publicity for a staged dove hunt, Bush knocked a protected species from the sky.

16.   But the rescuers also found the feathers of owls, which are protected species, at the site.

17.   But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently granted a permit to Maryland to use conservation laws that allow the controlling of protected species when they become nuisances.

18.   But under the new law, enacted virtually without contest, cats finally join the protected species.

19.   Eider ducks are a protected species, and their down is collected by hand from nests in Iceland so as not to harm the ducks, Pipkorn said.

20.   Environmentalists worry that new high-impact tourism is threatening what few toeholds of nesting habitat remain here for endangered sea turtles, among other protected species.