Work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado is helping save one of the most endangered ...

A cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian Zoo has given birth to two kits in an effort to conserve the endangered ...

“The many partners in the Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program continue their innovative and inspirational efforts to save ...

Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending this species from threats like agricultural and urban development, pesticides ...

Cutting-edge technology designed to track and understand the secret, underground lives and behavior of the elusive black-footed ferret has been deployed in the wild for the first time. Believed to be ...

These ferrets are carnivores that mainly eat black-tailed prairie dogs, another grassland species facing population decline. In the years following the ferrets’ reintroduction, the park ...

The animal is the country's only native ferret species and historically lived in parts of the southwest including New Mexico and Arizona. They once numbered in the millions but in 1997 were put on ...

Take the case of the black-footed ferret. Within circles of conservation biology, there are animals known as “Lazarus species,” those believed lost to extinction that seem, miraculously ...

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 ...