ALBANY — Love is in the air for Georgia’s official state reptile, and female gopher tortoises are busy laying clutches of eggs outside their burrows. Although gopher tortoises currently seem to be ...

The College Station Fire Department said on Monday that they helped bring Jack the tortoise inside to help it get out of the snow. Jack is a 150-pound African spurred tortoise that is about 24 years ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge are ...

Despite assertions that rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle are largely to blame for habitat destruction threatening desert tortoises near Gold Butte National Monument, it’s unlikely that a judge would rule ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ENGLE, N.M. (AP) — While the average ...

NPCA has been working to expand Joshua Tree National Park and establish Chuckwalla National Monument to protect desert tortoise habitat. Here’s why an intact desert landscape matters for the tortoise ...