The sights and sounds of a busy Friday at the Springs Preserve in early May: bees buzzing around blooming desert wildflowers, kids playing at the splash pad, butterflies spreading their wings and ...

AZGFD Tortoise Adoption Program coordinator, in a news release. "While the Arizona Game and Fish Department strives to keep wildlife wild, captive desert tortoises cannot be released into the wild ...

If you encounter a desert tortoise, keep your distance and avoid disturbing it. Report sightings to AZGFD and call their Desert Tortoise Adoption program at 844-896-5730 if an injured tortoise is ...

The desert tortoise then emerges again in the spring, signaling the start of warmer weather for southern Nevada. So summer lovers rejoice! Mojave Max made his emergence yesterday. Local ...

He makes note of the state reptile, the desert tortoise, which is now a protected species. "We have a head start program for the desert tortoise because they're threatened right now. The raven ...

How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a Southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a state Department of Public Safety trooper recently helped ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in ...

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise whose annual spring emergence from his underground burrow at the Springs Preserve marks the beginning of spring in Southern Nevada, is awake, but he’s not ready ...

Channel 13's Guy Tannenbaum spoke with a Springs Preserve zoologist to learn why Mojave Max is still in his burrow 'brumating' despite warm temperatures in April and May. Louisiana: controversial ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Local animal celebrity Mojave Max set a new burrow emergence record — and one lucky student at Elaine Wynn Elementary School predicted it all. As part of the Springs ...

The monument lands also provide refuge for more than 50 rare plants and animals, from bighorn sheep, desert tortoise, and burro deer to small burrowing owls and its namesake, the Chuckwalla lizard.

ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO WE HAD, THERE WERE MORE ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS BEING CONDUCTED ON THE DESERT TORTOISE AT SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE RANGE OF THE DESERT TORTOISE ...