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Emergency Funding Needed for 2025 Black-footed Ferret Recovery Efforts
The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered mammals; fewer than 500 black-footed ferrets live in the wild today in 17 reintroduction sites. To ensure their survival, black-footed ferrets and their prairie dog prey must be protected annually from non-native sylvatic plague. Most of the 17 active black-footed ferret reintroduction sites in North America depend in part on Federal funding for this work. Recent freezes and uncertainty on already appropriated and allocated Federal funding threaten the ability of many sites to conduct plague prevention activities this spring. This could result in the loss of over half of the remaining black-footed ferret population in the wild within the year.
 
To avert the loss of black-footed ferrets, their habitat, and the biologists who protect them, conservation partners are working to secure $500,000 in emergency funding by April 30, 2025. Specifically, these funds will go to support black-footed ferrets, prairie dogs, and biologists at six tribal sites (Fort Belknap, Crow, and Northern Cheyenne Reservations in Montana and Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, and Standing Rock Reservations in South Dakota), three public land sites (Conata Basin/Badlands National Park and Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, and Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado), and one private land site (Southern Plains Land Trust in Colorado). ​

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 Why This is Urgent
Black-footed ferrets were once thought to be extinct, but thanks to tireless conservation efforts, they’re making a comeback. Now, their future is in jeopardy again. Critical plague prevention activities are scheduled to begin this spring and this can’t be accomplished without finding alternative funding!
 
Loss of funding means:
  • Conservation teams disbanded
  • Disease prevention halted
  • Black-footed ferrets at risk of disappearing—again
We can’t let that happen. Every dollar helps keep these conservation efforts alive!
 
How Your Donation Helps:
  • $25 – Provides essential plague protection for one acre of prairie dogs
  • $50 – Supplies life saving plague vaccine for one black-footed ferret
  • $100 – Funds on-the-ground biologists for critical fieldwork
  • $250+ – Helps sustain long-term recovery efforts


Goal: $500,000 by April 30, 2025!
 
We Need You—Now!
This is a real-time emergency. Your donation today can literally save both black-footed ferrets and the people working to protect them.
 
Can’t donate? No worries! Please:
  • Share this link with five friends
  • Tag influencers and conservation groups
  • Spread the word on social media (every share counts!)
We need this to go viral! The black-footed ferrets are running out of time, but together, we can save them.
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Donate now & be a hero for the prairie’s most endangered predator!
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To donate, please use the link or QRL code below.
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The Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo collects and distributes funds
for SAFE Black-footed Ferret. All donations are tax deductible - (Non-Profit Tax EIN: #86-0174843)


For other donation information, please contact the SAFE Black-footed Ferret Treasurer, Tara Harris, at [email protected]
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