Dozens of miles of "tortoise fencing" are being installed along roadsides in prime tortoise habitats, officials said.

A tortoise has lived to see another day after it arrived in a waste lorry and went through an entire sorting process at a ...

A federal judge ruled the Bureau of Land Management's off-road plan didn't show how it minimized impacts to the desert ...

This is the second of a three-part series outlining the history of the Imperial Sand Dunes, the vegetation and wildlife that ...

A Tuesday ruling finds 6,000 miles of dirt roads set aside for motorized recreation ignored studies showing high death rates ...

A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal would ease permitting for projects that could harm the threatened species in an area ...

The judge ruled that the Bureau of Land Management did not designate off-road vehicle routes with the objective of minimizing ...

Long regarded as one of the longest-living pets you could ever own, turtles surprise many pet owners with how long they can ...

It’s not just burrowing owl advocates who are concerned about the the consequences of solar sprawl. It’s desert tortoise ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...