BUT CAN MAKE THEIR LIFE AGAINST PREDATORS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE NATIVE GOPHER TORTOISE HERE IN FLORIDA. THEY USE THEIR SHELL AS A WAY TO HIDE FROM PREDATORS. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THIS GIRL ...
"Because of habitat destruction the gopher tortoises are infringing a little bit more with the human population," Fox said. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission (FWC ...
Gopher tortoises in limited parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and western Alabama are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. Those in eastern Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina ...
An act of vandalism could have a lasting effect on a pair of gopher tortoises in southwest Florida. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples originally shared in a Nov. 22 Facebook post that ...
After a gopher tortoise was recently hit by a car, East Lee Wildlife Stewardship Group wants Lee County to install signs for gopher tortoise crossings.