St. George mayor vows to fight Biden admin decision on controversial highway through desert tortoise habitat
One of St. George Mayor Michele Randall’s main focuses over the coming year will be working with state and county leaders to ...
From East TN to Madagascar, Knoxville zoologist helps save endangered tortoise species
Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.
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Public land in Mojave Desert just named as California's newest national monument
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.
Polish Adventurer to Cycle Gobi Desert in Winter
Mateusz Waligora of Poland is returning to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia next month to fat bike 1,400km from Altai to the ...
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As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows
the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...
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Thousands of endangered tortoises rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded
Sanctuary staff, members of the community and even police officers joined together in a rescue operation, wading through the water with large containers to collect the bewildered tortoises.
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Thousands of endangered tortoises rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded
Sanctuary staff, members of the community and even police officers joined together in a rescue operation, wading through the water with large containers to collect the bewildered tortoises. Some ...