How will layoffs slashing a Colorado facility’s staff by more than a quarter impact efforts to restore the endangered ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret.

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

Black-footed ferrets are North America's only ... since they help create their underground habitats, and are the ferret's main food source. However, they have also been on the decline because ...

But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows ... Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending ...

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, who led the species’ recovery across 12 states–including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, ...

POWELL — The first clone of a black-footed ferret, Elizabeth Anne, was an important step in addressing the endangered species’ impoverished genetics. Starting with access to genetic material ...

With that, the extinct black-footed ferret was officially brought back from ... which involved raising kits, preparing food, and observing them during preconditioning. Jackson, meanwhile, was ...

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet ...