Why ban prairie dog hunting in a specific area? The black-footed ferret depends on the prairie dog. Ferrets will often use an abandoned prairie dog burrow as a home.

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

Antonia, one of the new black-footed ferret clones. The first black-footed ferret clone was born in 2020. The two new ferrets are the second and third successful clones. Roshan Patel / Smithsonian ...

Black-footed ferrets, referred to as BFFs in a lawsuit, are not viewed as best friends forever by Kansas landowners suing over their reintroduction.

These Unique Black-Footed Ferrets Are on the Edge of Extinction. Trump’s Cuts May Well Do Them in. “So much conservation work is happening bare-bones right now.” ...

Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical ...

Tina Jackson never tired of arriving to work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center outside of Fort Collins. After nearly 30 years as a state wildlife manager, Jackson took a job ...

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern ...