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

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

Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little ...

With that, the extinct black-footed ferret was officially brought back from ... which involved raising kits, preparing food, ...

Habitat loss and non-native disease threaten the recovery of the black-footed ferret. The ferret is entirely dependent on the presence of prairie dogs and their colonies for food, shelter and raising ...

their main source of food, can be found, and where around 170 other species rely on their existence, according to Jeff Baughman, black-footed ferret programs manager at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo ...

The black-footed ferret is one of the most endangered mammals ... The first is lack of food: Prairie dogs, the ferrets’ main prey, have been decimated by sylvatic plague, which is caused by ...