Now the California Fish and Game Commission ... multi-year grant to restore and protect a region inside a desert tortoise critical habitat with the goal of making sure it "remains an area ...

In 2002 we and allies won another landmark settlement in which 1.9 million acres of the California Desert Conservation Area were protected against livestock grazing and 18,000 acres of tortoise ...

The California Fish and ... The Colorado Desert saw a decrease of 17%, representing about 13,000 tortoises. Threats to the animals include habitat loss due to development, climate change, expanded ...

The activities are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered ... The mission of CNPS is to conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and to increase the ...

Building the habitat takes time ... who administers the desert tortoise permit process in California. “The tortoise is awake, they play with it, they get tired of it, it goes to sleep.

Two California desert conservancies have won ... The project will permanently protect western Joshua tree and desert tortoise habitat near the newly designated Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape.