After Hurricane Helene devastated Florida’s coast, gopher tortoise populations unexpectedly surged in one area.

In 2016, the Gopher Tortoise Council adopted April 10 as Gopher Tortoise Day in Florida to increase awareness and ...

Park rangers say at least 84 gopher tortoises are now living at Fort de Soto Park near St. Petersburg. Prior to Hurricane ...

April 10th, Floridians are invited to ‘shell-I-brate’ Gopher Tortoise Day. Gopher tortoises are found in all 67 counties in Florida and are often found ...

“We did have a gopher tortoise population in the park, but it was limited, 8 known burrows at that time. After Helene, we started to find tortoise out on our beaches, quickly realized it wasn ...

Happy Gopher Tortoise Day. Gopher tortoises are found in all 67 Florida counties and are frequently seen in neighborhoods, ...

With populations spanning all 67 counties, gopher tortoises are far too busy as Florida’s only native tortoise species for ...

The black spiny-tailed iguana has colonized Gasparilla Island, where it they outnumber humans five to one, undermining sea walls and dunes, gobbling native plants and gopher tortoise eggs and pooping ...

As Lee and Collier County grapple with rapid development and swelling population, land programs model environmental stewardship despite challenges ...