NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gopher tortoises — burrowers whose extensive homes shelter many other animals — are generally doing well and need federal protection only in the small area where they were ...

The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the southeast United States. Founded in 2013, the Forestland Stewards ...

Helping gopher tortoises to thrive isn't just good news for tortoises; it also means good news for hundreds of other species that depend in big and small ways on the tortoise in its role as a ...

Gus the gopher tortoise has been in residence at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax since 1942. While his actual hatching day is lost to history, August seems like the right time ...

LONG COUNTY, GA / ACCESSWIRE / August 9, 2023 / Rayonier: Originally published on Rayonier.com Foresters take their responsibility to guard protected species seriously. When it comes to the gopher ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination. According to a Florida Department of Environmental ...

The right-of-way (ROW) manager with Cooperative Energy, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, points toward a half-moon-shaped hole in the ground about 15 ft away. A flash of a figure just disappeared into the ...

Carrie Drake, naturalist interpreter at the Museum of Natural History, carries Gus, the resident gopher tortoise, as he celebrates his 90th birthday at the museum in Halifax on Aug. 12, 2012.

Gus, a 95-year-old gopher tortoise, his mouth stained from eating berries, is seen at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax on Friday, March 16, 2018. Gus was born and raised in Florida ...

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 ...

The gopher tortoise is federally listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the western portion of its range (from Louisiana, east to the Mobile River in Alabama).

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 ...