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2007 IUCN Red List – 2004 Photo Gallery
Europeans arrived. Photo © Cristian Echeverria. Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) is currently listed as Extinct in the Wild, pending reassessment. ... considered Extinct in the Wild. Through a successful captive breeding and re-introduction programme, Black-footed Ferrets are making a come-back. Photo © Dean Biggins. Mutisia magnifica is a Vulnerable ...
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Cottonwood Newsletter
Tribe’s ongoing reintroduction of the swift fox and black-footed ferrets. The return of these animals is very exciting. It has a great ecological and ... Maka Foundation Board member Shaun Grassel, along with a local Tribal youth, releasing a black-footed ferret.” Cottonwood Foundation Contributors Update Laurie Gustafson, Editor Paul Moss, Executive Director . Home | ...
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Mammal Populations of the Colorado Plateau
Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) The activities of the black-tailed prairie doggrazing and construction of burrows and moundsand, by association its chief predator, the black-footed ferret, ... . Miller, B., Wemmer, C., Biggins, D. and Reading, R. 1990. A proposal to conserve black-footed ferrets and the prairie dog ecosystem. Environmental Management 14: 763-769. Murie, O. and Penfold ...
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Black-footed Ferret
Black-footed Ferret Black-footed ferret Mustela nigripes Less than 100 of these nocturnal carnivores survive. A large area of prairie and very many prairie dogs are need to support just a few ferrets. Ferrets declined with extensive killing of prairie dogs. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.A. Source: Optilearn CD-ROM, copyright 1995. Black-footed ferret ...
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Black-Footed Ferrets and Our National Parks
Black-footed ferrets feed on prairie dogs and make their homes in prairie dog's burrows. Female Black-footed ferrets have 4 or 5 young in May or June of each year. Black-footed ferrets have been reintroducted in Badlands National Park. Black-footed ferrets at Badlands National Park ...
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Modern Ferret News #35 - The Public's Opinion of Ferrets
We certainly didn't offer any of our ferrets to them. Somehow people act like having ferrets is some sort of problem similar ... species? * What a horrible misfortune that the American black-footed ferret is called a black-footed ferret instead of a black-footed polecat. Pet ferrets are not wild black-footed ferrets in a way similar to the way miniature ...
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Forest Friends: Black-footed Ferret
Black-footed Ferret The black-footed ferret ( Mustela nigripes) is the rarest mammal in North America. It is extremely endangered. Ferrets are similar to minks and weasels. They are about 21 inches long. Ferrets ... ferrets are close to extinction. Ferrets will also feed on mice, gophers, ground squirrels, birds, eggs and reptiles. You can own your own Black-footed ferret. The black-footed ferrets ...
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Black-Footed Ferret -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
Approximately one thousand black-footed ferrets live in captivity at breeding facilities, while another 200 live in the wild following releases by the federal government. LIFESPAN: Black-footed ferrets have been known to live up to 12 years in captivity. RANGE: The black-footed ferret was once found throughout the ...
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Black-footed Ferrets Return to Kansas! - Defenders of Wildlife
Learn More> Black-footed Ferrets Return to Kansas! Good news! Larry and Bette Haverfield and other heroic ranchers finally won a long fight to bring endangered black-footed ferrets back to the ... released 24 black-footed ferret kits on the Haverfields's private land on December 18th. Black-footed ferrets need lots of space and prairie dogs to survive. And ever since black-footed ferrets were ...
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EPA: Pesticides - Save Our Species Poster - Black Footed Ferret
EPA Home Pesticides Endangered Species Protection Program Save Our Species Poster Black Footed Ferret Save Our Species Poster: Black Footed Ferret This slender animal depends mainly on prairie dogs for food and ... hunts them at night. When prairie dogs disappeared from the Great Plains, ferrets vanished too. In 1986, the 18 ferrets known to be alive were moved to a Wyoming research institute. ...
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