a part of the Habitat Conservation Plan designed to protect endangered desert tortoises. At the time, the federal government ruled that cattle grazing posed a threat to the tortoise population. Now, ...

Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted u ...

But by the end of last century, this population of the desert tortoise was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Livestock grazing and urban development, along with the ever ...

Desert tortoises are listed as threatened and protected under the Endangered Species Act. To develop a solar project on private land containing a protected species a company must file a habitat ...

They are the largest of all mainland tortoises and usually reside along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The species is classed as endangered. Desertification, where land turns into desert ...

Just before President Biden left office, he designated two swaths of land in California as monuments. Chuckwalla National Monument is among them but conservationists worry about its future under the ...

a part of the Habitat Conservation Plan designed to protect endangered desert tortoises. At the time, the federal government ruled that cattle grazing posed a threat to the tortoise population.