The project is crucial for conserving the Mojave desert tortoise, a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and will also benefit other desert wildlife such as coyotes ...

The organizations Defenders of Wildlife, the Desert Tortoise Council and the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee initially petitioned for redesignating the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered in 2020.

Water company Cadiz tapped the engineering firm to oversee construction of a massive groundwater bank that will supply ...

Signed 25 years before our visit, in October 1994, the act determined the fate of 9.6 million acres of Southern California desert, establishing 69 new wilderness areas, expanding Joshua Tree and Death ...

Tara Cornelisse, an entomologist and senior scientist at the Center. “These bees may be tiny but they play an important role in maintaining the health of the unique Mojave Desert ecosystem.” The Fish ...

Today’s Mojave Desert, once an ancient sea ... results in significant variation in temperature, vegetation and wildlife. In July, normally the preserve’s hottest month, the average high ...

including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert. The activities are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered wildlife toward extinction. “I’m grateful ...

The project has long attracted fierce opposition, however: Conservation groups say pulling water from the aquifer would threaten natural springs and wildlife in the heart of the Mojave Desert ...