The world’s smallest rabbit, the pygmy rabbit, which lives in Utah and other parts of the West, may receive federal protections under the Endangered Species Act. A federal agency is conducting a ...

Conservation organizations plan to sue the federal government for failing to decide whether tiny rabbits found in Idaho and neighboring states deserve endangered or threatened species protections, ...

YAKIMA -- The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has given the Oregon Zoo in Portland $57,000 to help build a conservation center in hopes of saving the world's smallest rabbit. The Columbia ...

Habitat for the pygmy rabbit, a furry denizen of the West’s sagebrush steppes, is in such rapid decline that the species warrants federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, several ...

EPHRATA, WASH. — Two groups of tiny, dark-eyed, salt-and-pepper rabbits were released in a sagebrush field in eastern Washington last week, raising the population of Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits in ...

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