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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...