ENDANGERED PYGMY RABBITS RETURN HOME

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | March 5, 2007 | Copyright

The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife issued the following news release:

Six years after an emergency roundup to rescue the species from the brink of extinction, nearly two-dozen endangered pygmy rabbits are headed back to their native shrub-steppe habitat in north-central Washington.

The pygmy rabbits scheduled for release back into the wild later this month are the offspring of a captive-breeding effort involving the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Washington State University, the Oregon Zoo in Portland and ...

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