As development continues across Northwest Florida, research, permitting, and on-the-ground conservation remain tightly ...
Volunteers at Apopka Birding Park spent a cloudy, damp morning spreading mulch, staking gopher tortoise burrows and clearing ...
Dog is first in United States trained to find gopher tortoises and burrows. Goal is to protect gopher tortoises from development. Gopher tortoise burrows provide food and habitat for about 365 species ...
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Judge closes 2,200 Mojave off-road miles to protect desert tortoise
A federal judge has ordered a sweeping shutdown of off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, closing roughly 2,200 miles of trails that crisscross habitat for the imperiled desert tortoise. The ...
The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.
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