OLYMPIA, Wash. - One of Washington state's cutest native mammals is in danger. A project that began this month could show drones are a vital tool in preserving them. The Columbia Basin population of ...

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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 ...

Conservation groups Wednesday sent a formal notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to take steps to protect the pygmy rabbit, the world’s smallest rabbit, under ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation organizations plan to sue the federal government for failing to decide whether tiny rabbits found in Idaho and ...

EPHRATA - It's Easter, but don't mention that famous egg-hiding bunny to pygmy rabbit savior Penny Becker. "This is all about conservation and recovery out here," Becker said last week at the ...

CENTRAL WASHINGTON — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will be flying drones over known pygmy rabbit locations in Central Washington. WDFW says staff and researchers will be flying these ...

BEEZLEY HILLS PRESERVE, Grant County — Wildlife biologist Miranda Crowell hunches over the cold, cracked dirt of the Washington shrub-steppe to inspect a moist pellet that is central to her obsession ...

CASPER — Weighing less than 1 pound, with short ears, little legs and an endearingly “scampering gait,” the pygmy rabbit is the smallest rabbit species in America. Worryingly, though, its population ...