Gopher tortoise relocations spike amid development boom, but Florida running out of room Will Indian River County let developers build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in ...

The right-of-way (ROW) manager with Cooperative Energy, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, points toward a half-moon-shaped hole in the ground about 15 ft away. A flash of a figure just disappeared into the ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to relocate ...

They dig burrows to create shelter and a place to scavenge plants and share these burrows with more than 350 other species. Florida statue protects gopher tortoises and their burrows.

PulteGroup paid over $13,000 for destroying tortoise burrows. To legally develop on occupied land, property owners must first relocate the reptiles.

More than 100 gopher tortoises were collected and transported about 30 miles from the Hyundai megasite to Fort Stewart Army base, officials say.

ALBANY — Love is in the air for Georgia’s official state reptile, and female gopher tortoises are busy laying clutches of eggs outside their burrows.

Gopher tortoises are among Florida's most ancient-looking critters, and they thrive at places like Bowditch Point Park at the north end of Fort Myers Beach.

Collapsed burrows. Alarmed neighbors. Slow agency response. The destruction of a once-thriving gopher tortoise community in Lehigh Acres last week typifies what’s happening to the threatened ...