While tortoises across their range continue to lose their homes and lives in the wake of human development, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has relegated the eastern population of gopher tortoises ...

"Because of habitat destruction the gopher tortoises are infringing a little bit more with the human population," Fox said. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission (FWC ...

WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE IS INVESTIGATING. Wildlife experts at the Treasure Coast Wildlife Center are working to clean a gopher tortoise found covered in nail polish ...