Florida is home to plenty of species that need no introduction: alligators, crocodiles, panthers, or manatees. However, a silent sentinel lies within burrows of Florida’s grounds. The gopher tortoise ...

While destroying their habitat they also destroyed the ‘protected’ Burrowing Owl burrows whose habitat overlapped with the tortoises.

For decades, Florida's booming development industry has relied on a controversial conservation strategy to protect one of the state's most iconic reptiles. When construction projects threaten gopher ...

Florida’s iconic gopher tortoise is in trouble, experts say. The keystone species, which is vital to ecosystems across six southeastern states, is now “critically endangered,” according to the ...

GAINSVILLE, FLA – To improve my chances, and because wandering around sandy scrub at dawn yelling ‘tortoise, please’ isn’t a real strategy, I arranged to meet Katherine Saylor, the Southeastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Florida's gopher tortoise, a quiet but vital presence across the Southeast, has received a troubling new ...

Dog is first in United States trained to find gopher tortoises and burrows. Goal is to protect gopher tortoises from development. Gopher tortoise burrows provide food and habitat for about 365 species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – The gopher tortoise is one of the many reptiles that call Florida home. You might even have a few in ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — The gopher tortoise, which is a protected species in all 67 Florida counties, has been reclassified as critically endangered as researchers believe the animal’s population ...