Over 150 captive-bred, juvenile tortoises have been released in coordination with a landmark ecological restoration project ...

More than a century after tortoises became locally extinct on Galápagos National Park’s Floreana Island, 158 giant tortoises were released back to the island on 0. It was made possible in part by ...

Juvenile tortoises with Floreana ancestry were brought to their native island from the Galápagos National Park’s breeding center on Santa Cruz Island, as part of ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is seeking volunteers for its Gopher Tortoise Habitat Enhancement Project ...

Conservation teams released 158 giant tortoises at two sites on the Galápagos island of Floreana to help restore the species' population, which disappeared from the island in the mid-1800s ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley. The area is home to the federally protected desert tortoise, ...

More than a century after tortoises became locally extinct on Floreana Island, the Floreana Ecological Restoration Project today released 158 giant tortoises back to the island, marking one of the ...

The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced ...

Giant tortoises have returned to the Galapagos island of Floreana for the first time nearly 150 years after they were driven to extinction.

As development continues across Northwest Florida, research, permitting, and on-the-ground conservation remain tightly ...