Nobody Told These Seven Species They Were Supposed to Stay Gone

Nobody Told These Seven Species They Were Supposed to Stay Gone By Green Matters Staff Published Aug. 6 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET Source: AdobeThe Colossal Foundation and Re:Wild just announced the second cohort of projects supported by the world’s only fund dedicated to returning threatened species to the wild. This week the dynamic duo named the second class of their Species Reintroduction Fund: seven threatened species across four continents, each one funded to claw its way back into the wild place that lost it. Black-footed ferrets, where every living survivor descended from just seven animals, bound for a 148,000-acre South Dakota bison ranch. Eighteen months later, all nine birds are alive and have laid the first wild Sihek eggs in a generation.