Thanks to the development of a special tracking collar, scientists are now reviewing data to understand the lives of ...

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

For black-footed ferrets it can result in sylvatic plague or canine distemper. Even with professional care, species with seriously limited genetic-diversity can end up going extinct due to the ...

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

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 ...

A cloned black-footed ferret gave birth to two kits in June 2024. This is the first time a cloned animal from an endangered species has successfully reproduced. Researchers hope they can breed ...

A bill that would lift the protected status of Wyoming otters was expanded and advanced Tuesday by a state Senate committee.

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 ...

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 ...

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.