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 ...

The black-footed ferret is listed under the Endangered Species Act as Endangered, and is considered the rarest mammal in ...

The comeback of the black-footed ferret is not just a story of scientists in labs. Local ranchers, volunteers, and Native American tribes have played pivotal roles in restoring prairie habitat and ...

Black-footed ferrets are North America's only native ferret species and were thought to be extinct in 1979. When the species ...

The black-footed ferret is hard to find. That wasn’t always the case. The species is endemic to North America, and in the ...

These two pen mates at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center near Carr, Colorado, are members of a species once thought to be extinct. Disease, habitat loss and eradication of the ...

The black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in North America, risks being further threatened with US government plans to poison prairie dogs, the ferret’s main prey.

Thirteen years after they were listed as endangered in 1967, the last captive ferret died, and the animals were thought ... Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in ...