ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In a formal peer-reviewed letter published today in Global Ecology and Conservation, experts in modeling and turtle biology detailed several errors in a population viability ...

A gopher tortoise was rescued from a site soon to be developed in Polk County near Davenport on Friday, June 3, 2022. Keith Crawford of Ecological Consulting Solutions, Inc., holds a juvenile ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gopher tortoises imperiled by loss of habitat largely caused by human development should be placed on the endangered species list in four southern states, environmental ...

The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the ...

FILE - A gopher tortoise ambles along a tee box on Sept. 21, 2014 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, that the burrowing reptiles don't need ...

St. Lucie County man is Florida's top tegu trapper. Tegus eat alligator eggs and juvenile gopher tortoises. St. Lucie County is home to an emerging and breeding population of invasive tegu lizards ...

The federal agency in charge of executing the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday informed the public that gopher tortoises in Florida won't receive the highest level of protection. But that ...

Learn about gopher tortoises, a keystone species found in South Carolina’s sandhills. Discover the vital role of gopher tortoises, a keystone species in the sandhills ecosystem, and why they ...

That's right. Spray paint. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples recently treated two gopher tortoises that were spray painted by someone who thought it might be a fun idea to do that ...

But something stood out in the rubble: Where the sea and shore met, in the shallow waves, there was a tannish-brown gopher tortoise. And then another. And another. “That’s odd,” Harshbarger ...

Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid Conservancy of Southwest Florida An act of vandalism could have a ...