U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

A captive-bred black-footed ferret undergoes preconditioning at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado before being reintroduced to the wild. The national recovery coordinator for the endangered species was fired as part of the Trump Administration's cuts to the federal workforce.

Federal job cuts could set back endangered black-footed ferret recovery

Rachel Cohen

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, the species' recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was fired as part of the Trump Administration’s federal workforce cuts.

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