Mojave desert tortoise officially joins California's endangered list
The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered.
The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered.
Plants & Animals
Apr 22, 2024
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An international team of wildlife researchers has found that the giant tortoises living on the Galápagos islands may be in danger of losing a major food resource due to the encroachment of invasive Cedrela odorata trees.
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting, lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbled down its sides toward the sea.
Environment
Mar 4, 2024
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A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2024
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Peruvian authorities have seized some 4,000 turtles that originated in the Amazon at the country's main international airport, the national wildlife service said Thursday.
Ecology
Dec 22, 2023
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Endangered giant Galapagos tortoises continue to swallow plastic and other human waste despite a ban on disposable plastic items in the Ecuadoran archipelago, according to a study published Wednesday.
Ecology
Nov 9, 2023
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In an animal shelter near Athens, veterinarian Kleopatra Gkika gently smears soothing cream on the leg of a tortoise, one of hundreds singed in Greece's devastating summer wildfires.
Environment
Oct 9, 2023
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While the average lifespan of North America's largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2023
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The shells of turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles keep growing as long as the animals live—and some of them live a remarkably long time.
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2023
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A wildfire burning near the California-Nevada border has ravaged parts of the Mojave National Preserve's famed Joshua tree forests, and experts worry that the massive blaze will forever change the fragile desert ecosystem.
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2023
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