A mature gopher tortoise (Photo credit: Lisa Lord). The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the southeast. The ...

A species of a protected wildlife is experiencing population growth. The Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve in Winsor recently released 10 “head-started” gopher tortoises into the wild. This was ...

But most gopher tortoises live in rural areas that are most often used for forestry or hunting. It’s not hard to manage for those uses to benefit both gopher tortoises and the landowner, Jensen said.

Joey Manna travels to a Gainesville-area state park to photograph Florida’s gopher tortoise and meets Katherine Saylor of ...

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 35 years ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — 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 ...

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 tortoise in ...

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 35 years ...