Now that we're in the month of May and have seen temperatures consistently in the upper 80s—many locals are asking "where is our famous spring-predicting desert tortoise Mojave Max?" ...

LAS VEGAS — Mojave Max, Clark County’s own weather prognosticator and mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, has not yet made his first appearance of 2025.

A desert tortoise hatchling at the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site, where vulnerable tortoises are raised inside the vast Marine Corps base. Tortoise hatchlings are raised at the ...

The Mojave Desert supports a variety of wildlife, including mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects that have evolved unique adaptations to thrive in this harsh environment. Species such as the desert ...

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An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, Calif., ...

Federal judge rules off-road plan illegal, environmentalists see victory for desert tortoise A Tuesday ruling finds 6,000 miles of dirt roads set aside for motorized recreation ignored studies ...

The project is crucial for conserving the Mojave desert tortoise, a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and will also benefit other desert wildlife such as coyotes, bobcats ...

Under the unyielding desert sun, a quiet yet fierce struggle for survival is underway. Here, among the creosote bushes and shifting sands, the desert tortoise — one of North America’s oldest ...

These intelligent birds have experienced an 800% population boom in the western Mojave Desert over the past 50 years, largely due to something entirely preventable, human trash.

1 Introduction. Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii, herein desert tortoise or tortoise) is a federally threatened species throughout the geographic range, which is north and west of the ...