American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, ...

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie’s National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Montana, just opened to the ...

A black-footed ferret wearing one of  new tracking collars is shown after being released November 19 at Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve  (this and all photos in article courtesy of ...

Biologists in southeastern Colorado are using drone technology to track and study endangered black-footed ferrets that have ...

Biologists in southeastern Colorado are using drone technology to track and study endangered black-footed ferrets that have been released on the eastern plains. According to ...

Hours after being released into a prairie dog town on the vast Southern Plains Land Trust, a game camera picked up on one of five captive born black-footed ferrets finding a burrow for the night. So ...

LAMAR, Colo. (KRDO) -- Returning from the near brink of extinction, efforts continue to study Colorado's black-footed ferret population. This week, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says 20 ferrets ...

More than 100 extremely endangered black-footed ferrets have been released into the wild since 2022 at the Southern Plains Land Trust ranch south of Lamar, but biologists’ most recent fall survey ...

Of all the communities across America impacted by the government shutdown, the population of endangered black-footed ferrets may be among the smallest and most vulnerable. This rare species, ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets this week. One-year-old ...

Black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced in Wyoming, Arizona, Montana, South Dakota, Mexico and along the Colorado/Utah border. GREEN RIVER - North America's first reintroduced black-footed ferret ...

The National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Carr, Colo., is at risk of losing heat and power as its remaining employees rush to prepare for the animal's breeding season. A federal ...