The rabbits that will be released Tuesday are the product of an emergency roundup six years ago of the remaining pygmy rabbits in the region, who were put into a captive-breeding program in a last ...

Louis, habitat team program manager, is acting agricultural and grassland program manager for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Pheasant, rabbit and quail hunting in Illinois opens Nov. 6.

About 23 pygmy rabbits will be released. They will wear tiny radio transmitters around their necks, to allow biologists to monitor their movements.

Endangered pygmy rabbits and sage grouse were burned out of their rare habitat in massive 2020 wildfires. A spring drought made things worse. But the animals will get a second chance at survival ...

Swannanoa Valley WILD is a chapter of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. The chapter works to serve the Valley in "protecting, conserving and restoring wildlife and habitat." ...