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How Long Should a Species Stay on Life Support?
Decades into their recovery program, black-footed ferrets still don’t have a clear-cut path to leaving the endangered-species list.
Katherine J. Wu
Katherine J. Wu is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Harvard University. Before joining The Atlantic in 2021, she was a science and health reporter for The New York Times focused on COVID-19. She won a Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication in 2022, a Science in Society journalism award in 2021, and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists in 2020. At The Atlantic, she covers science.
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