As part of a planned 2,400-acre solar project southwest of Pahrump, developer Candela Renewables will temporarily relocate 114 adult desert tortoises — a species, listed as threatened under the ...

“This means that hundreds of desert tortoise juveniles and hatchlings could be crushed ... over updated Western Solar Plan hits home for Nevada conservationists Previous tortoise relocation ...

some of whom wrote a letter in March to urge federal officials to cancel the process because of impacts to the desert tortoise, listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...

“Along with killing thousands of birds and tortoises, the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species," Dowell said.

An estimated 114 adult desert ... for Nevada conservationists Previous tortoise relocation projects have subjected tortoises to predators. “The project site is located on diverse high elevation ...

Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Three rare Nevada species may warrant protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. The Amargosa toad and Oasis Valley speckled dace, a small fish ...

Hill suspects the desert species his team discovered underwent a similar process of isolation and speciation. "These grasshoppers we described live in a lowland thorny scrub habitat. Somewhere ...