After a decade of dead ends, environmental reviews are now underway for a controversial highway across protected desert tortoise habitat and public land outside St. George, a project Washington County ...

California’s Mojave Desert has become the backdrop of choice for many Instagram influencers who dig the aesthetics of Joshua trees and the otherworldly arid landscapes. Joshua Tree National Park now ...

Generally, tortoises do not swim, according to Andy C. Highfield, author of the Tortoise Trust Guide to Tortoises and Turtles. In the case of commonly kept pet species, "deep water is a serious hazard ...

Florida wildlife officials are considering steeper fines for molesting threatened gopher tortoises as the cost for re-homing them to reptile reservations outpaces penalties levied for burying them ...