With populations spanning all 67 counties, gopher tortoises are far too busy as Florida’s only native tortoise species for ...

Volusia County’s Solid Waste Division will collect materials such as old paint, solvents, automobile and household batteries, pool chemicals, pesticides, motor oil, gasoline, other household chemicals ...

Florida is affectionately known as the “Sunshine State”, and is one of the most exciting places to visit in America. With ...

Some are diminutive: Behind an east Marco Island Publix, Barfield Burrows Preserve shelters a four-acre network of tunnels, home to gopher tortoises and burrowing owls – hence the name. “It looks like ...

April 10th, Floridians are invited to ‘shell-I-brate’ Gopher Tortoise Day. Gopher tortoises are found in all 67 counties in Florida and are often found ...

However, that is exactly why Lee County decided to be part of the Gopher Tortoise Day celebration. Nonprofits, like the Cape Coral ... the more we do our part in protecting them.

Anna Yu To answer that first question, park rangers only had to look at the reptiles’ shells. They found tiny holes that had been drilled by biology students tracking gopher tortoise populations ...