21.   Getting permits from agencies concerned with air-quality control and protection of threatened species, not to mention fending off opponents, can cause damaging delays.

22.   Hen harriers and short-eared owls are among threatened species thriving in the Orkney moorlands.

23.   However, the eagle remains on the threatened species list.

24.   It is credited with helping to save pandas, mountain gorillas and snow leopards, among other threatened species.

25.   John Palmisano, a fisheries scientist representing the Northwest Forest Resource Council, said it is important to try to protect truly threatened species.

26.   Once traded at Boy Scout Jamborees and collected for the pet trade, the lizard now is listed as a threatened species by federal authorities.

27.   Rescuing all threatened species is impossible.

28.   Texas officials list the bat as a threatened species.

29.   The areas are prime habitat for threatened species like the spotted owl and marbled murrelet.