Several environmental groups filed a petition seeking federal protection for the pygmy rabbit, a tiny ground-dwelling mammal that no occupies just 10% of its range across Utah and the Great Basin.

In the heat of the afternoon sun, Olivia Beaudette, a master’s student studying ecology at the University of Wyoming, scoured ...

The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest rabbit and is threatened by livestock grazing, oil and gas extraction, invasive non-native grasses and wildfire. Center for Biological Diversity: BOISE, Idaho— ...

With Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits listed as endangered in 2003 and reintroduction activities underway in 2011, Gallie was in the right place at the right time.

The groups say the pygmy rabbit was first proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act in 1991 and then re-petitioned in 2003. In September 2010, ...

Environmental groups filed a petition on Monday asking federal officials to add North America’s smallest rabbit to the endangered species list. Pygmy rabbits, which typically weigh less than a ...

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 ...

Federal officials consider adding 10 more species – including the pygmy rabbit – to endangered list Miranda Crowell Pygmy rabbit is the smallest species of rabbits ...

Katie Reilly of the Oregon Zoo releases a kit, a baby pygmy rabbit, to an enclosure near Ephrata, Wash., on July 19, 2012. The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are endangered, and the Oregon Zoo has ...

But it also includes two species whose listed habitat includes Colorado: the pygmy rabbit, which does not live in Colorado, and the southern plains bumble bee, which thrives across 33 states. This is ...

The 17 wild-bred pygmy rabbits released in a sagebrush draw last Thursday brought more than 15 years of land deals into focus, said Robin Stanton of The Nature Conservancy.

The wildlife agency is also revising the status of the pygmy rabbit, the smallest species of rabbit in North America. Adults weigh under a pound, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.