"Success ... absolutely depends on building relationships with the communities on whose land the initiative works." Over ...

Water turtles require more extensive care and are recommended to be kept outdoors to help duplicate it's natural environment, the club said. The turtle needs a large swimming area (a children's pool ...

Acting on a tip from a village informant, Fabian met a colleague at the edge of the spiny forest reserve just after nightfall. Together, they cycled quietly through the community-managed forest, ...

The park’s animal care manager, Tracy Reynolds, says marginated tortoises are more at home in a warm and dry Mediterranean ...

One of the natural forest enclosures at the TSA’s Androy tortoise rescue center. Image by Carolyn Cowan for Mongabay. Amid the habitat loss and relentless poaching pressure, coupled with ...

"Hundreds of square miles of good tortoise habitat is now being used for military maneuvers," LaRue said, citing base expansions at Twentynine Palms and at Fort Irwin National Training Center near ...

Killed a couple, too. The penalty: a fine of about $13,700. Pulte was clearing out the tortoises to build Del Webb’s Stone Creek, a gated, 55+ “active adult” community in Ocala. You better believe ...