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State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination.

Reporter Timothy O’Hara delves into the life of a gopher tortoise, its burrow and its importance.

This makes protecting gopher tortoises and their burrows vital not just for the survival of the species, but for the survival of Florida’s fragile ecosystem as a whole.

Gopher tortoise burrows can be more than 20 feet long, according to Meylan, providing critical shelter not just for the tortoises but also for hundreds of other animals that depend on them to ...

This makes protecting gopher tortoises and their burrows vital not just for the survival of the species, but for the survival of Florida’s fragile ecosystem as a whole.

It’s exactly those burrows that make the gopher tortoise so important, and why they’re the subject of such strong protections from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).