WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found that the pygmy rabbit is not endangered, because the statistical methods used in the petition requesting protection are not accurate ...

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BOISE, Idaho— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that the pygmy rabbit may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest rabbit and is ...

SALT LAKE CITY— Conservation organizations submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today requesting protection of pygmy rabbits under the Endangered Species Act. The rabbits ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is planning to look for pygmy rabbits using drones over the next year. WDFW said in a news release Tuesday that its staff would fly drones over known ...

A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. The land will become part of The Nature Conservancy’s ...

SPOKANE – An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week when state and federal scientists release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Scientists in Idaho will be flying military-style drone aircraft over the state’s sagebrush sea, not in a bid to find terrorists but to help locate the best habitat for one of West ...

Habitat for the pygmy rabbit, a furry denizen of the West’s sagebrush steppes, is in such rapid decline that the species warrants federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, several ...

Sep. 22—EPHRATA — In a move for conservation efforts in Washington State, the Nature Conservancy has transferred ownership of the 9,000-acre Beezley Hills Preserve to the Washington Department of Fish ...