What would you say are some hallmarks of longtime Floridians? As a Florida native, I’d say a love of our plentiful outdoor ...

Wildlife experts at the Treasure Coast Wildlife Center are working to clean a gopher tortoise found covered in nail polish.

Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid Conservancy of Southwest Florida An act of vandalism could have a ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Two gopher tortoises, found spray-painted blue and pink, were taken to receive treatment from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida this week. The first gopher tortoise was ...

"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 ...

Gopher tortoises are a threatened species in Florida, and state laws forbid harassing them or disturbing their burrows. “Paint on any turtle shell is problematic because the carapace is bone ...

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

The wetlands "have more species of amphibian than the Everglades do. ... When these wetlands decline, the whole ecosystem declines.” ...

considered a leader of gopher tortoise protections in Florida. “The loss of sandhill habitat in this state is horrific, and every little habitat that we can hang on to is extremely important ...