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.

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...

She’s spent 20 days at Honeymoon Island State Park urging drivers to slow down. It’s working. Max Chesnes is the Tampa Bay Times' environment and climate reporter, covering public lands, water quality ...

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 viable tortoise populations, according to a news release from the Georgia Department of ...

Cape group is hosting youth event from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the Cape Coral-Lee County Library, according to ...

SANIBEL, Fla. - Chery Day has found her calling in retirement, not by traveling the world, but by making a difference in her community.

— Georgia is winning the race to save the state’s reptile. Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen shows us the decade long effort to help the number of Gopher tortoises bounce back. In the South Georgia ...

MOJAVE MAXINE? This sweet celebrity has the sort of name that lends a headline or magazine cover with instant pizzazz, but here's the twist: She's never going to be followed by the paparazzi, her ...