Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path could ...

The official state reptile of Nevada has been classified as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1990, ...

The desert tortoise is king in the Mojave. But a coalition of environmentalists says one solar project poses an unacceptable threat to the habitat of the iconic animal, listed as threatened under the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Desert tortoises are very popular throughout Southern Nevada. These reptiles are supposed to be out in the wild, but they are also pets to thousands of households. This may ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada transportation officials have completed dozens of tunnels and what are called turnarounds, to protect the federally-protected Mojave desert tortoise population, which is ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Now that we're in the month of May and have seen temperatures consistently in the upper 80s–even setting records in the low to mid 90s in mid-April—many locals are asking "where is ...

The solar farm is proposed to be built on federal land in the Nevada desert. A coalition of conservation groups petitioned Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Monday to cancel her agency’s ongoing ...

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 are ...

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Sonoran tortoise population has grown greatly since the early 80s due to captive breeding. With their exploding population and our climate warming, how can a population ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...