But by the end of last century, this population of the desert tortoise was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Livestock grazing and urban development, along with the ever ...

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 ...

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 Seventy critically endangered ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the ...

which they charge are pushing desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered species toward extinction. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and ...

For the desert tortoise, an approximately 1-foot-long ... They were added to the Endangered Species List in 1990 and are currently listed as “threatened,” meaning they’re likely to become ...

In a relatively small pen on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch, tucked between Elephant Butte and White Sands, a beloved species ...

The groups say these routes are harmful to the Mojave desert tortoise — which is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act but recognized as endangered by the California Fish and Game ...

Utah’s entire congressional delegation as well as Gov. Spencer Cox and a Native American tribe strongly criticized the Bureau ...

A long-planned highway in southern Utah hit a pothole last week after the federal government released a new analysis ...