10 and orally at the meeting. In 2007, in response to growing urban sprawl and rules that allowed developers to legally kill, harm and entomb gopher tortoises in their burrows, Florida passed laws ...

Gopher tortoises are among Florida's most ancient-looking critters, and they thrive at places like Bowditch Point Park at the north end of Fort Myers Beach. Bowditch has plenty of grassy hills ...

A Florida man was arrested after law enforcement discovered he was keeping a threatened tortoise in a bucket, according to a Tuesday report from Fox 35 Orlando citing the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Originating 60 million years ago, the gopher tortoise is one of the oldest living species on the planet and the only native North American tortoise species east of the Mississippi River.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied Endangered Species Act protections to the eastern ...

The gopher tortoise ... a destructive exotic species now common throughout the tortoises' entire range. We surveyed ants using tuna bait at 154 G. polyphemus burrows in a greenway reserve established ...

Read full article: Will Hurricane Milton cancel my flight to Florida? See which airports ... or repairing damaged structures.” “Gopher tortoises generally inhabit high and dry habitats ...