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 ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine that a creature could vanish from the wild and then, decades later, make a dramatic ...

The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered animals and has been since 1972. In fact, it got so bad ...

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 ...

Take the case of the black-footed ferret. Within circles of conservation ... that have been doomed in parts of the United States by habitat destruction, market hunting, and poaching.

Conservation efforts at the Phoenix Zoo and Southwest Wildlife aim to protect endangered species like black-footed ferrets ...

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 ...