The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises.

Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department seek a home where they can happily crawl around and burrow ...

Amendments to the Environmental Species Act could "eviscerate" the decades-old law and endanger species on the fringe of ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages Arizona ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

A casualty of the Eaton fire was the destruction of the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, which lost 15 animals who died in their enclosures.

The group of young tortoises spent their early life in a headstart program operated by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

After years of living pet-free (save one vicious betta fish), my family and I decided to adopt a captive desert tortoise. Fittingly, it was a slow and steady process. In Arizona where we live ...

Many area residents know Mojave Max from his annual emergence contest, where elementary school students participate in the Punxsutawney Phil-esque tradition of guessing when the desert tortoise ...

Mojave Max has finally emerged from his burrow. The desert tortoise mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program came out of his burrow at the Springs Preserve at 3:09 p.m. Tuesday.

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