As firefighters battle a massive wildfire in the eastern Mojave Desert, national park officials and ecologists are preparing for habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever ...

The Ranch Fire near Apple Valley has burned over 4,200 acres and impacted a portion of the Mojave Desert Land Trust's Rock Springs Ranch Preserve. The 592-acre preserve, acquired in 2019 to ...

Desert tortoises are sensitive to global warming, residential sprawl and other human encroachment on their habitat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated tortoise populations fell by ...

Nonprofit conservation group Basin and Range Watch estimates that more than 100 desert tortoises would have to be moved off the land to build this solar project.

St. George • After nearly three decades of concerted efforts to save them, the Mojave Desert tortoise in southern Utah is more threatened than ever. In 1990, the Mojave Desert tortoise was ...

The fire is also burning through critical habitat for the desert tortoise, which is listed as a threatened species. Where things stand The boundaries of the York Fire as Sunday.

Conservation group says solar project threatens Mojave Desert tortoise habitat. The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley.

The Mojave desert tortoise faces multiple threats to its survival, including habitat loss driven by development, military training and base expansion, off-highway vehicle use and livestock grazing.

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens have reintroduced 70 critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises to their native habitat on Edwards Air Force Base.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

The Mojave rattlesnake, found in the southwestern US and Mexico, is one of the most venomous snakes in the world. It ...