When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish ...

Coloradan Tina Jackson's one-year probationary period as a federal employee was set to end on March 10. But three weeks ago, ...

The first clone of a black-footed ferret, Elizabeth Anne, was an important step in addressing the endangered species’ ...

In northern Colorado, a dedicated team of workers is helping save an endangered species known as the black-footed ferret. Now ...

Tina Jackson fears federal job cuts and funding freezes could imperil work to save the species from the brink of extinction.

A captive-bred black-footed ferret undergoes preconditioning at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in ...

Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie ...

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Staffing cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including a key ferret recovery coordinator in Colorado, have sparked ...

A rabbit species thought to be extinct for 120 years was recently found in Mexico, mirroring the rediscovery of black-footed ...