Once fully trained, Echo will be the first dog in the United States that sniffs out gopher tortoises, according to Jones and ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has successfully reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 viable gopher tortoise populations, as announced by the Georgia Department of Natural ...

Boasting more than 80 distinct ecosystems, Florida is a biodiversity hot spot. In fact, more than 4,000 animal species are native to the Sunshine State. In the heat of summer, a growing number of ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

Volunteers remove invasive plants at Sanibel's C.R. Johnston Preserve to restore habitat for threatened gopher tortoises.

Saving gopher tortoises means protecting their homes, not just moving them By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my ...

Burrow associates of the gopher tortoise : proceedings of the 8th annual meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 13-15 November 1987 / C. Kenneth Dodd ... [et al.], ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A North Port landowner has been fined more than $150,000 by the city due to unlawfully cutting down trees and disturbing gopher tortoise burrows. According to the Florida Fish ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A Vero Beach man was charged with the unlawful taking of a gopher tortoise after deputies and a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer found one by his feet ...