Gopher tortoise habitat covers the coastal plain from South Carolina through Florida to southeastern Louisiana, mostly in longleaf pine savanna habitats. The gopher tortoise is federally listed as ...

The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the ...

D Ranch Preserve in Volusia County recently transformed from 476 acres of privately held ranch land into a protected piece of public land.

Unlike some animals at SFC Teaching Zoo, gopher tortoises aren’t just an attraction — they’re a keystone species crucial to Florida’s ecosystem. The tortoises are ecosystem engineers ...

A proposal aims to change the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act, and environmental groups are raising alarms over its potential impact. The new proposal could alter how "harm" is ...

In the height of last summer’s controversy over the DeSantis administration’s proposal to build golf courses, hotels and ...

The Guardian reports that Fort de Soto county park’s gopher tortoise population has actually increased since Hurricane Helene. Park rangers recently reported 84 active burrows in the Florida ...

The land hosts a gopher tortoise and is located within an active Florida Scrub-jay habitat. The conservancy has preserved 46 other parcels totaling almost 15 acres and relies entirely on donations ...

The Marco Island Center for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas recently announced a cultural ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the ...

As news spread Saturday of a proposal for the state of Florida to trade 600 acres of preserved land to a private company, so ...