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 loss of hundreds of Fish and Wildlife employees could have immediate and long-term impacts on wild places, including Joshua Tree National Park.

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

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.

In Riverside County, Oswit Land Trust was awarded $1.5 million for 642 acres in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains, preserving healthy coastal sage scrub, grasslands, and other habitats ...

“These bees may be tiny but they play an important role in maintaining the health of the unique Mojave Desert ecosystem.” The Fish and Wildlife Service found that protecting the native bee as ...

That includes habitat for species such as the endangered Lane Mountain milk vetch, which is found only in the western Mojave Desert. “The court got it right in finding that the Fish and Wildlife ...

Some pockets of the Mojave Desert see less than 3 inches of rain a year. So you might think this parched landscape is about the last place on earth you’d go looking for extra water. But for the past ...

If it’s spring, it’s gotta be Mojave Max time ... especially with the desert animal specimens the program brings into schools to teach students about wildlife. “It’s one thing to be ...