Sulcata tortoises are mostly herbivores, so their diet consists of grasses, plants and hay. They can live up to 120 years in the wild, but typically live 30-50 years in captivity. They can often ...

Pima County Sheriff's Department humanely removed ten Kunekune pigs, three dogs, a gopher snake, a desert tortoise, six sulcata tortoises, two red-eared slider turtles, and one deceased Sonoran ...

Feeding turtles and tortoises right means mimicking their natural diet; the wrong foods, even common ones, can be harmful.

When identifying whether you are looking at a turtle or a tortoise, consider where it lives (water vs. land), its shell shape, leg structure, and diet. Turtles enjoy a mixed diet that includes ...

Conservationists will seek additional protections for the tortoise while next steps are hammered out. A federal judge has struck down the latest Bureau of Land Management plan to manage off ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge ...

PIEDMONT, Okla. (KFOR) – After a few months of searching, a Piedmont woman’s pet Tortoise “Ferb” was finally found. It was only about 100 feet away from her home. Cherrie Zaidi with Ferb.

The judge ruled that the federal Fish and Wildlife Service erred in its opinion that the plan "was not likely to jeopardize the survival and recovery of the desert tortoise" by not taking into ...

saying it didn't provide adequate protections for the dwindling desert tortoises in the region. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in an order issued Tuesday found the plan violated environmental ...