Black-footed ferrets are adorable little creatures who live across the grasslands. They scavenge for food and hide for survival. Prairie dogs are the black-footed ferret’s main source of food. As they hunt for prairie dogs, the black-footed ferrets are also hiding from predators that feast on them.

Black-footed ferrets are endangered. They are in severe threat of extinction. We must act fast before it is too late!

Black-footed ferret’s habitats are being destroyed as we speak. They are also dying from a shortage in their food supply. The prairie dog is dying out because of the strain from the prairie dog plague.

If we do not do anything to save the Black-footed ferrets, they will become extinct faster than we think. The extinction of the Black-footed ferrets will affect the rest of the Animal kingdom food chain as wolves and foxes hunt Black-footed ferrets for survival. The extinction of the Black-footed ferret will adversely affect and cause an imbalance of the food web and the entire grasslands biome.

During the early 1900’s, the United States was home to more than 5 million ferrets, however in the early 20th century they were almost completely eliminated due to agricultural development and rodent poisons which devastated the prairie dog populations and left the ferrets with a shortage of food.

In the 1990’s, ferrets from that population were released at 29 sites in Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Arizona and along the Utah/Colorado border. Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. There are approximately 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity.

Luckily, we can save these ferrets. We all need to co-operate to save them. If we address this issue and raise awareness, we can increase the population of the black-footed ferrets as well as the prairie dogs.

Further destruction of their habitat and declining numbers of the prairie dog’s means the ferrets will eventually die out.

Imagine how you would feel if you had no food to eat and no home to live in. It would not be fun right?

We need to stop destroying their habitat, these ferrets need a place to live. Once we stop destroying their homes, their habitat can recover. We also need to re-balance the population of the prairie dogs; prairie dogs are what the black-footed ferrets need to eat so they can survive.

We all must be more aware of this issue and act together; we can save them. The ferrets all rely on us, we are their last and only hope for survival!