Sentences with phrase «protected prairie dogs»

«The vaccine protected prairie dogs in our study, but not all of them» said Dr. Rocke.

On the opposite side of the globe from Bale, on North America's Great Plains, Rocke's lab is testing an oral vaccine to protect prairie dogs and endangered ferrets from plague.

Not exact matches

Saving plague - ridden prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) is an indirect way to protect the real target: an endangered predator, black - footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) of the Great Plains.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

The April 2005 purchase of a 46,000 - acre Mexican ranch will protect threatened grasslands and the world's largest prairie dog colony.

«These agencies are legally bound to protect our wildlife and habitat and most are failing miserably when it comes to prairie dogs.»