In exchange for the state forest land, the district would receive roughly 550 acres of Lee Peanut Farms LLC’s farmland along the Withlacoochee River, a waterway that officials say gives the property ...

such as sea turtles in water and land tortoises in deserts. Different habitats, including deciduous forests, prairies, evergreen forests, and arctic tundras, support distinct animal species ...

Livestock grazing and urban development, along with the ever-increasing use of off-road vehicles, continue to degrade the tortoise's vanishing habitat, while Army translocation projects threaten to ...

But habitat is not protected, meaning tortoises are being squeezed into increasingly ... They need large, unfragmented uplands like long-leaf pine forests to survive. Gopher tortoises in limited parts ...