Livestock grazing and urban development, along with the ever-increasing use of off-road vehicles, continue to degrade the tortoise's vanishing habitat, while Army translocation projects threaten to ...

The adoption is free, but requires an application, including photos and a diagram of the tortoise’s new home. We spent hours setting up her habitat in our backyard, digging out rocks ...

“Hundreds of square miles of good tortoise habitat is now being used for military maneuvers," LaRue said ... Desert tortoises were once so plentiful that people driving through the Mojave would take ...