In the sandy country of southern South Carolina, you may notice a wide, half-moon-shaped opening in the ground. This is often the entrance to a gopher tortoise burrow.

While destroying their habitat they also destroyed the ‘protected’ Burrowing Owl burrows whose habitat overlapped with the tortoises.

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida's Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn't know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

Florida is home to plenty of species that need no introduction: alligators, crocodiles, panthers, or manatees. However, a silent sentinel lies within burrows of Florida’s grounds. The gopher tortoise ...

GAINSVILLE, FLA – To improve my chances, and because wandering around sandy scrub at dawn yelling ‘tortoise, please’ isn’t a real strategy, I arranged to meet Katherine Saylor, the Southeastern ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— The International Union for Conservation of Nature has published a new assessment that revises the gopher tortoise’s status from “vulnerable” to “critically endangered” on the IUCN ...

The plains pocket gopher is the only species of gopher found in Illinois. Now, these gophers can be found in sandier soils, at lower elevations and in better-drained soils. Although some of this ...

LABELLE, Fla. (WINK) — Two LaBelle residents are raising concerns about the threat to a protected species due to rapid community growth. The gopher tortoise, Florida's only native tortoise species, is ...