The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

The tortoise was likely in a deep burrow during the Turkey Farm Road Fire. Mojave desert tortoises spend 90% of their lives in such burrows, which are much larger than you might think.

Tortoises in the western Mojave Desert have been hardest hit, according to state wildlife officials. Researchers found a 54% reduction in the number of animals there between 2001 and 2020 ...

Looking for a winter job? The Mojave Desert Preserve has announced a limited number of job openings with the goal of ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens have reintroduced 70 critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises to their native habitat on Edwards Air Force Base.

Desi, a 12-year-old Mojave desert tortoise who is part of the Edwards Air Force Base Desert Tortoise Adoption Program, eats a dandelion. Mojave desert tortoises have been considered an endangered ...

The California Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday granted temporary endangered species status to the Mojave desert tortoise when it agreed to consider the dusty, armored herbivore as a ...

The Marine Corps has relocated more than 900 tortoises from a section of Southern California’s Mojave Desert to allow for large-scale military training. The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ...

Desert tortoises’ native habitat is the Mojave Desert shrubland from about 1,000-4,000 feet in elevation. Their range extends across the southwestern United States (Nevada, California, Arizona ...

Tortoises in the western Mojave Desert have been hardest hit, according to state wildlife officials. Researchers found a 54% reduction in the number of animals there between 2001 and 2020 ...