Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a significant decision that affects off-road vehicle recreation in the western Mojave Desert, a federal judge has prohibited ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal would ease permitting for projects that could harm the threatened species in an area with significant development possibilities. A long-awaited conservation plan ...

The Sonoran desert tortoise population is stable and not in need of protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. The tortoises, native to ...

These are our public lands. Protecting them should never require destroying the people who live on them, for a gesture that ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave Desert, protecting more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. The designation, granted April 18, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect ...

The animals are also vulnerable to a range of deadly diseases such as upper respiratory illnesses and the shell disease cutaneous dyskeratosis, which softens their shells. Finally, as climate change ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. The designation, granted Thursday, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect ...