Efforts to help a genetically impoverished species may be the only chance for a stable population and the species' eventual ...

How will layoffs slashing a Colorado facility’s staff by more than a quarter impact efforts to restore the endangered ...

Coloradan Tina Jackson's one-year probationary period as a federal employee was set to end on March 10. But three weeks ago, ...

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, the species' recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was fired as ...

Tina Jackson fears federal job cuts and funding freezes could imperil work to save the species from the brink of extinction.

A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say ...

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a ...

Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie ...

A rabbit species thought to be extinct for 120 years was recently found in Mexico, mirroring the rediscovery of black-footed ...

Staffing cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including a key ferret recovery coordinator in Colorado, have sparked ...

A U.S.-based animal rights group has pledged US$50,000 to help any ferrets rescued from a breeding mill in southwestern ...