How an island became ferret free - thanks, in part, to Woody the wonderdog

More than 400 traps were laid across the island in a £4.5m project which featured a specially-trained detection dog called ...

Inhabited island eradicates its entire invasive ferret population to save over 250,000 seabirds

Since the removal of the invasive species, a native seabird, the Manx shearwater, has returned to breeding on Rathlin Island ...

Predatory feral ferrets removed from an island for the first time ever

Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland is ferret-free after £4.5m five-year partnership led by RSPB NI ...

Rathlin Island sees feral ferrets eradicated for the first time

Predatory feral ferrets have been removed from Rathlin Island for the first time, in a boost for Northern Ireland’s largest ...
NPR

Baby black-footed ferrets born to cloned mom offer hope for species

Well, in this case, the story is real. For the first time in U.S. history, a cloned endangered species has produced offspring. SUMMERS: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that ...
AZ Central

'Little vampires': Wildlife agencies release 10 black-footed ferrets in northern Arizona

SELIGMAN — Wildlife officials released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets at Arizona’s only active ferret reintroduction site Wednesday, the latest development in a decades-long effort to save the ...
Mother Jones

These Unique Black-Footed Ferrets Are on the Edge of Extinction. Trump’s Cuts May Well Do Them in.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of ...