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

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 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 ...

In an outdoor enclosure, two juvenile black-footed ferrets pounce and somersault, tumbling over each other in a playful fight. The loser breaks free and rushes into a tunnel lined with a plastic tube.

Small and slender, the black-footed ferret was once abundant in Canada’s grasslands until the agricultural boom in the early 1900s. By 1974, this ferret was thought to be extinct until a tiny ...

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

Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.

Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending this species from threats like ...