Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle ...

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 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An egg that was found in a tortoise habitat at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance over the winter has successfully hatched a tiny, but largely important, baby tortoise. Tuesday, the ...

ALBANY — Love is in the air for Georgia’s official state reptile, and female gopher tortoises are busy laying clutches of eggs outside their burrows. Although gopher tortoises currently seem to be ...

The judge issued an injunction at the request of environmental advocates who had prevailed two years ago on the merits of their lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management.

Community-led antitrafficking networks are proving pivotal in helping authorities intercept poachers targeting critically endangered and endemic tortoises in southern Madagascar’s fast-disappearing ...

Utah’s political establishment has a thing for roads. Call it an obsession, maybe even a fetish, but state leaders go to great lengths to satisfy their internal-combustion-engine mania. In the past, ...

The Environmental Conservancy of North Port has completed its fundraising goal to purchase its first parcel in Englewood for a Florida Scrub-Jay and Gopher Tortoise habitat. The grass-roots group ...

The diminutive Karoo dwarf tortoise may play a key role in seed dispersal of plant species in its semidesert habitat in South Africa, a new study finds. A germination trial showed the tortoises ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — An egg that was found in a ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — No wildlife was injured after a small brush fire threatened a tortoise habitat on the side of the road in St. George. Crews responded to the fire just after 5:30 p.m. on ...

Despite assertions that rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle are largely to blame for habitat destruction threatening desert tortoises near Gold Butte National Monument, it’s unlikely that a judge would rule ...