The primary protagonist of the video is the gopher tortoise, a species found only in the Southeastern United States and primarily in Florida. The images displayed show tortoise burrows being ...

Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright ... The Conservancy also shared pictures of the tortoises. In one, a tortoise's shell is painted half hot pink and half royal blue.

The Conservancy of South Florida in Naples shared before-and-after photos after admitting two gopher tortoises that were spray-painted on their shells. In the first photo, one tortoise had its ...

didn't know the burrow was there. "I had taken photos of the burrow and reported it through FWC's website as a gopher tortoise burrow in April," she said. Spring said she had obtained ...

Last week, the federal government denied protections to the gopher tortoise—a keystone species—east of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers. Though this doesn’t change much for the gopher ...

It happened in Punta Gorda, about 100 miles south of Tampa, and photos show a thick layer of mortar was stuck to the underside of the gopher tortoise. “A house was being built next to where this ...

Gopher tortoises — burrowers whose extensive homes shelter many other animals — are generally doing well and need federal protection only in the small area where they were declared threatened ...

FILE - A gopher tortoise ambles along a tee box on Sept. 21, 2014 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, that the burrowing reptiles don't need ...

That's right. Spray paint. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples recently treated two gopher tortoises that were spray painted by someone who thought it might be a fun idea to do that ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gopher tortoises imperiled by loss of habitat largely caused by human development should be placed on the endangered species list in four southern states, environmental ...

ATLANTA (CN) — The eastern population of the gopher tortoise is not in danger of extinction and does not require federal protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday in a decision ...