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

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

making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators hunt them in their own burrows, and take shelter in abandoned prairie dog dwellings. Many prairie dog towns became ghost towns ...

Ferrets are notorious for their habit of stashing objects. They will collect anything that catches their eye, from socks and ...

The research team also tagged 50 of the engineers of ferret habitat and food resources – prairie dogs. Their colonies provide shelter for ferrets and many other species, and are the primary diet ...

At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie dogs, their primary food source. Without prairie dogs, these ferrets would not survive. From as many as a million ferrets in the 19th ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows, were almost wiped out early in the 20th ...