The Natural Areas Festival is taking place Saturday, Feb. 15, at Winding Waters Natural Area in West Palm Beach from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Organizers stopped by our studio to talk more about the event. For ...

South Gulf Cove is a subdivision built by the General Development Corp. about 50 years ago on the Cape Haze peninsula that ...

One lot is in the Sleeping Turtles South protection site near the Myakka River; the second is off Lemon Bay Drive along ...

6, 2025) Members of Nantucket Cub Scout Pack 92 recently put their building skills to good use, creating new, custom homes for Mzee and Melvin, a pair of tortoises at the Maria Mitchell Association's ...

Three more specialty license plates will soon be available on Florida’s roads including ones supporting Israel, K9s and gopher tortoises.

Alagba, Nigeria’s royal tortoise alleged to be the oldest in Africa, lived to the estimated age of 344 before its death on October 3, 2019. Considered a historical figure, Alagba lived in the ...

Here are some highlights from each recent Gopher! Quinn Carroll. Quinn has always been highly respected for his ability to play guard. And likely even more respected as a teammate doing whatever ...

The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish. The new ...

The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by ...

Finding and maintaining release sites that will keep the tortoises safe is an emerging difficulty for the center. Habitat loss in the area and Madagascar's "low capacity to enforce wildlife laws" ...

The tortoise reportedly died in 1966 at the age of 188. Radiated and spider tortoises are critically endangered in Madagascar because of habitat destruction and poaching. They are eaten, but also ...

Mr Kingai stressed, “Local wildlife officials in Tanzania will quarantine and care for the surviving tortoises before assessing if they can be safely returned to their natural habitats.” In June 2023, ...