SPOKANE, WA. -- An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week. Scientists next Tuesday will release nearly two dozen of the animals back ...

SPOKANE, WA. --- Some endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are being released in the wild today in Eastern Washington in the Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area, north of Ephrata. These animals were ...

"The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit population has not met population or secure habitat criteria for down-listing from its current state endangered classification. The population remains small and ...

WENATCHEE -- Government agencies say it is still too early to tell whether the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit can survive without experimental crossbreeding. More of the adult rabbits ...

The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are endangered, and the Oregon Zoo has been working on a captive-breeding program for 12 years. (Photo: Shannon Dininny) ...

EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) -- The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered ...

EPHRATA, Wash. — Wildlife experts are making one last effort to save the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, believed extinct in the wild since mid-2004.

The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is found in Washington state. But officials say there are probably fewer than 30 left _ and possibly only a dozen in the wild, in an area northwest of Ephrata known ...

That year, officials were only able to scoop up 30 of them when they searched throughout their native habitat of the Great Basin of the United States, extending from the Great Salt Lake in Utah and ...

Last month, a linkurl:judge ruled;http://www.westernwatersheds.org/legal/07/pygmy/pygmysjorder.pdf that the US Fish and Wildlife Service had to revisit a 2004 decision denying pygmy rabbits outside of ...

Those include releases of captive-bred animals into the wild, relocating pygmy rabbits from places outside the Columbia Basin, and semi-controlled field breeding measures.

"The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit population has not met population or secure habitat criteria for down-listing from its current state endangered classification. The population remains small and ...