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State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination.

This makes protecting gopher tortoises and their burrows vital not just for the survival of the species, but for the survival of Florida’s fragile ecosystem as a whole.

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.

The building boom is having a disastrous effect on gopher tortoises, a 60-million-year-old keystone species that is losing ... Each burrow provides food and habitat for about 365 species of bugs, ...

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 ...

The building boom is having a disastrous effect on gopher tortoises, a 60-million-year-old keystone species that is losing the battle over the same high-and-dry ground where people want to live.

The building boom is having a disastrous effect on gopher tortoises, a 60-million-year-old keystone species that is losing the battle over the same high-and-dry ground where people want to live.