Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

This paper describes an interdisciplinary study of the habitat requirements of threatened desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) on eight 225-ha study plots in a 14 000 ha study area near the southern ...

There are a lot of ways, it turns out, to cope with unrelenting desert heat. Rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and many other desert-dwelling mammals and reptiles are crepuscular, meaning they are most ...

Wildfires burned 24,254 ha of critical habitat designated for the recovery of the threatened Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in southern Nevada during 2005. The proliferation of non-native ...

What role do deserts play in the world’s ecosystems? The desert habitat, it is a land of extremes: hot days, cold nights. But it is also home to a rich variety of plants and animals. How do they all ...

What is a warm desert and what is a cold desert? Deserts are an important habitat. Find out how plants and animals survive in a land of extremes.

Tortoise habitat in the Mojave Desert is negatively affected by power lines, development, highways and changes across the landscape. Red brome and Mediterranean grass are invasive grasses in the ...

There are few places that will take in injured or abandoned wild animals in the Las Vegas Valley. Because wild animals can be hostile to humans and carry parasites and other diseases that may be ...

Two young rhinos soon will be joining The Living Desert family, moving into a new $17 million, 4-acre habitat that's under construction just inside the zoo’s entrance. Rhino Savanna will be a ...

As we know by now, every cause has an effect. And even the best of causes — such as ramping up solar power in an attempt to slow climate change — come with some not-so-good consequences. In the case ...