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

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

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, the species' recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was fired as ...

A dedicated team of workers is helping save the black-footed ferret. Now, President Trump is firing some of them. Experts worry it will hurt the species the most.

Efforts to help a genetically impoverished species may be the only chance for a stable population and the species' eventual removal from Endangered Species Act protections.

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

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

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

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 ...