From its pre-Columbian peak, the Florida black bear population fell precipitously. Between unregulated hunting and habitat ...

Adrian Devone Evans Jr. was taken into custody July 31 after and Indian River County sheriff's deputy found the animal in Evans' car.

A Vero Beach man is facing criminal counts after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said he attempted to take a gopher tortoise from a protected habitat earlier this summer — ...

Fort De Soto Park Manager, Dave Harshbarger, first noticed the gopher tortoises on the beach. “We did have a gopher tortoise population in the park, but it was limited, 8 known burrows at that time.

A proposed housing development on the Treasure Coast is threatening to displace hundreds of gopher tortoises, and it may be part of a bigger pattern playing out across the state.

The leopard tortoise of East Africa and South Africa has a striking appearance, with juveniles and young adults living up to ...

WPTV is taking up-close look at how a proposed housing development in Indian River County is threatening to displace hundreds of gopher tortoises. The protected species is beloved in Florida and their ...

Catch up on all the latest news from Gopher Athletics from the past week. GopherSports.com: Audrey Wethington (Hockey) and Isabella McCauley (Golf) became the seventh and eighth Gopher ...

Gopher Resource’s air quality permit history shows there have been eight enforcement activities since 1996. Most recently, there was an administrative penalty order with a discovery date of Sept ...

Residents of Eagan, Minnesota, received a state warning about elevated lead emissions coming from a battery recycling business in July.

"They may also impact other ground-nesting native wildlife such as the gopher tortoise, American crocodile, sea turtles and ground-nesting birds.