CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Tuesday that it is hosting a brand-new, never-before-seen event: A desert tortoise meet-and-greet. The tortoise viewing ...
The animals are also vulnerable to a range of deadly diseases such as upper respiratory illnesses and the shell disease cutaneous dyskeratosis, which softens their shells. Finally, as climate change ...
Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal would ease permitting for projects that could harm the threatened species in an area with significant development possibilities. A long-awaited conservation plan ...
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Sonoran tortoise population has grown greatly since the early 80s due to captive breeding. With their exploding population and our climate warming, how can a population ...
This paper describes an interdisciplinary study of the habitat requirements of threatened desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) on eight 225-ha study plots in a 14 000 ha study area near the southern ...
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...
The discovery was reported to Arizona Game and Fish, but as of Thursday, the agency has not responded to a request for ...
At first, Melissa Fullerton thought it was just a brown paper bag. But when she followed her neighbor's curious dog to the lump in the street on Sunday evening, Fullerton saw it was no paper bag. It ...
Since 1966, common raven (Corvus corax; raven) abundance has increased throughout much of this species’ Holarctic distribution, fueled by an ever-expanding supply of anthropogenic resource subsidies ...
A mutilated desert tortoise was found at Honeybee Park in Oro Valley, Arizona, suspected to be a deliberate act.
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