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

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 ...

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 ...

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

With a ravenous appetite and up to 70 eggs per clutch, these lizards seemed poised to dominate Marco Island. That is, until ...

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

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

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

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

On the horizon directly in front of her burrow, about two miles offshore, Egmont Key’s historic lighthouse towered over ...

Visitors to Fort De Soto may notice some new residents. Experts say they’re monitoring 84 tortoise burrows at Fort De Soto, ...