But for those who worked for agencies like the National ... of working to protect the animals with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Jackson became the black-footed ferret recovery coordinator for ...

(CN) — The first bandit-faced black-footed ferret kit slid right out of its carrier like it had been dreaming ... though the animals have started breeding in the wild in Lamar and other parts of ...

But their gene pool is small — all known black-footed ferrets today are descendants of those seven animals — so diversifying the species is critically important. Noreen and Antonia ...

She's a veterinarian at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado ... conserved which protects the animals in the environment like golden eagles, burrowing ...

In Colorado, work began in 2001. Black-footed ferrets were reintroduced in the state’s northwest, only to die of plague like other released ... by a cloned endangered animal.” ...

“And in some ways that may not sound like a lot, but in this genetic world, that is huge.” A small ferret peeks over a dirt mound in a dry, grassy field. In September, Colorado wildlife ...

Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 2-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.

The Endangered Species Act, signed into law by President Nixon in 1973, has been an incredibly successful piece of ...

Nationally, the first-ever black-footed ferrets born to a cloned endangered animal were reported ... it has been difficult for biologists like Ed Schmal of Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Southeast ...