The community is invited to the Second Annual Gopher Tortoise Day from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 11, at the Citrus ...

The gopher tortoise is a protected species, and it’s illegal to move them. That’s unless they are trying to cross a road or ...

On a recent January morning, 10 preschoolers from the Children’s Education Center of the Islands (CECI) joined ...

The burrow didn’t look like much at first, just a shallow dip in the sand, a small opening framed by loose soil and scrub.

Dog is first in United States trained to find gopher tortoises and burrows. Goal is to protect gopher tortoises from development. Gopher tortoise burrows provide food and habitat for about 365 species ...

Today from 3–6 p.m., Troy University’s Naturalist Club hosts free Gopher Tortoise Day at the Arboretum with family activities and live animals to highlight this threatened keystone species.