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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

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The Black-Footed Ferret: A Project to Restore Genetic Diversity

The Black-footed ferret used to range across the Great Plains from Mexico to Canada. By 1981, there were none until one small population was found in Matitsi, Wyoming. Over 30 years, all 10,500 ferrets have been bred in captivity from just a founder gene pool of seven wild caught.

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