Manatee County receives a 20% discount for its own projects that require gopher tortoise relocation. A developer pays market ...

Georgia wildlife officials say the state has reached a milestone in its push to protect gopher tortoises, even as some environmental groups say more needs to be done.

Gopher tortoises are protected under state law. It’s illegal to handle or even relocate the animals, with one exception. The Florida Wildlife Consercation Commission does grant special permission to ...

As daylight fades, Kissimmee Prairie reveals perhaps its most spectacular feature – a night sky untainted by light pollution. Designated as Florida’s first and only Dark Sky Park by the International ...

Hugh Taylor Birch State Park in Fort Lauderdale is Florida’s ultimate plot twist – a lush, 180-acre tropical haven sandwiched between luxury high-rises and the Atlantic Ocean, proving that Mother ...

Gopher Tortoises/At A Glance. The gopher tortoise is federally listed as threatened in Louisiana, Mississippi and western ...

The state Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday that the Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 viable tortoise populations. No. 65 is an ...

The Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has successfully reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 gopher tortoise populations.

When an iguana crawled from a burrowing owl nest, John Johnson picked up his air gun and started a war. The lizards never saw ...