As this keystone species' name suggests, the gopher tortoise is an expert at living underground — like a gopher. Gopher tortoises have shovel-like front legs and strong, thick back legs to help them ...

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.

Learn about gopher tortoises, a keystone species found in South Carolina’s sandhills.

Gopher tortoises are considered a keystone species of longleaf pine forests, though they can be found in other ecosystems as well. The tortoise’s shovel-like front legs are adapted to create ...

Gopher tortoises share their burrows with more than 350 other species, and are therefore referred to as a keystone species. In Florida, the gopher tortoise is listed as threatened.

Vegetation Management Preserving Endangered Species: The Gopher Tortoise and Cooperative Energy's Approach A Mississippi utility becomes an accidental steward of a threatened population of gopher ...

New Florida rule weakens protections of threatened species The suit is about more than gopher tortoises Many other animals depend on gopher tortoises, which is why they're called a keystone species.

Discounting their own dire predictions about gopher tortoise survival, feds deny them Endangered Species Act protections. Advocates intend to sue.

Wildlife experts at the Treasure Coast Wildlife Center are working to clean a gopher tortoise found covered in nail polish.

Georgia’s new wildlife plan brings together habitat restoration, native planting and online tools to guide conservation across the state.

Gopher tortoises are a state-designated threatened species in Florida, and are federally listed as threatened west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers in Alabama under the Endangered Species Act.