But in 1981, a ranch dog brought a dead ferret home, leading to the discovery of ... population and introduced ferrets back into the wild at 34 sites across eight states, Canada and Mexico.

"The life of the ferret has a lot of pressures out in the wild," Adrienne Crosier ... is by ensuring that they have a place to call home. "We can save the black-footed ferret," Marinari told ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets ... Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been ...

Soon after, wild-born ferrets were seen at the park ... plains bison — descendants from the original herd — returned home to the Blackfeet Nation reserve near Glacier National Park in Montana.

Biologists have released 2,600 in eight states, Mexico and Canada; the wild population hovers at about 1,000. A captive-bred black-footed ferret has the long torso, masked face and furry black ...

So when the plague started spreading in the South Dakota prairie less than a year ago, the scourge put at risk the world’s largest wild ferret population.

Jackson knows just about everything about black-footed ferrets. "They're a really important ... We did not know of any in the wild or in captivity, and we now sit at about 300 in captivity and ...

A Suffolk family have taken in two ferrets as friends for their existing pets after seeing an appeal in this newspaper to find a forever home for them. Woodbridge mum Phoebe Ling's daughter Alyvia ...

In the process, the black-footed ferret was nearly wiped out. In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program, which has since reintroduced ferrets into promising ...