Ferrets are making progress in their new Colorado home!

From USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System:

Ferrets are making progress in their new Colorado home! 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counted 47 endangered black-footed ferrets last month at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. That includes 20 out of the original 28 captive-born ferrets that were released there in 2015, a survival rate of 71 percent.
"Seventy-one percent is phenomenal for survival," said Kimberly Fraser, an outreach specialist for the federal ferret program. Read the details here http://abcn.ws/2h9VeRz and still more about this endangered species here https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/es/blackFootedFerret.php Photo credit: J. Michael Lockhart/USFWS




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