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National geographic site with high school lessons on: - captive breeding, species survival, and case studies. -Video clips are also available

Habitat loss and disease in the American prairie pushed the black-footed ferret ​to the edge of extinction. Now these underground-dwelling mammals are making a comeback, through a captive-breeding program run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There, baby ferrets-called kits-are raised and released into the wild.​