Arizona wildlife officials have released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets in an attempt to rebuild the population at the ...

Plague-fighting techniques and cloning have fuelled the comeback of the critically endangered black-footed ferret.

An Eastern Plains reintroduction strategy began in 2013 with the release of 300 ferrets to six Colorado sites over a period ...

Black-footed ferrets, also known as American polecats ... and a sharp decline in their primary food source—prairie dogs. By the early 1980s, the species was thought to be extinct until a small ...

Our canine friends can often go above and beyond in their duty as loyal companion or working dog. In the case of saving a ...

Ferrets deemed ready to be reintroduced into ... predators and learn how to hunt and live in the burrows of their main food source: prairie dogs. Eventually, they are released and monitored ...

From deforestation to species extinctions, our environment is in need of new conservation efforts, and several tech ...

The students from Lamar Middle School were invited to release the creatures on a private landowner’s property as part of the ...

Their decline was precipitated by westward expansion, which systematically eliminated prairie dog populations—the ferrets' primary food source. Declared extinct in 1979, the remarkable discovery ...

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National Zoo center in Virginia, in what a federal agency called a conservation ...

Yemi Adelekan is a food writer and blogger who was a semi-finalist in the 2022 series of BBC TV’s Masterchef competition.