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

In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program, which has since reintroduced ferrets into promising western habitats. Ferret reintroduction efforts have been mixed.

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

Usually, when a creature is considered extinct, it's thought to be gone forever. But that's not true of this species, which ...

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.

Like bison, cattle can help maintain the grassland habitat by grazing ... Park by releasing 74 animals in 2009. Soon after, wild-born ferrets were seen at the park, sparking hopes that the ...

The black-footed ferret is native to the prairies of North America, with a habitat that stretches from southern Canada to northern Mexico. They face a number of threats in the wild, including ...

A wild black-footed ferret stands near a prairie ... The research team also tagged 50 of the engineers of ferret habitat and food resources – prairie dogs. Their colonies provide shelter for ...

However, the animals have been plagued by disease, habitat loss and other challenges ... about those first few days after ferrets are released into the wild, where the ferrets go and what they ...