The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is offering a reward for information after a gopher tortoise was found completely covered in red spray paint with concrete on its limbs in Lake ...
Someone thought it would funny to paint a gopher tortoise red. Wildlife officials aren't laughing. The tortoise was found in the middle of County Road 455, south of Montverde, coated in red spray ...
A recent incident in Central Florida has state wildlife officers seeing red. According to a Wednesday post on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website, a gopher tortoise was found ...
From left, Charlotte Modesitt, Ray Swick and Susie Ashley pose with Sammy. Sammy got loose from Swick on June 19 at Civitan Park in Belpre and was lost for nearly a week before being found by Jenny ...
As Congress considers legislation that would reshape Washington County’s Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, biologists say the area’s Mojave desert tortoise populations are holding steady under the existing ...
An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...
ORLANDO, Fla.-- A gopher tortoise found covered in red spray paint and concrete has been released back into the wild, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Gopher ...
An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...