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The second study indicated that captive tortoises can be a source of disease to wild Agassiz's desert tortoise populations. Johnson et al. (2006) tested blood samples for URTD (n = 179) and herpesvirus (n = 109) from captive tortoises found near Barstow, CA and Hesperia, CA. Demographic and health data were collected from the tortoises, as well ...
The California Fish and Game Commission on Thursday formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered.
Arizona Game and Fish has more than 100 captive tortoises that need homes. Here's why and everything you need to know about applying to adopt one.
The desert tortoise is teetering on the brink of extinction. Can California's Endangered Species Act save it from oblivion? California's Mojave Desert tortoises move toward extinction.
The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa. It is the largest mainland species of tortoise in Africa, and the third-largest in the world, after the Galapagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise.
The Sonoran Desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai), or Morafka's desert tortoise, [3] [4] is a species of terrestrial chelonian reptile of the family Testudinidae ...
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...
Geographic distribution of species within the genus Gopherus. In July 2011, researchers decided on the basis of DNA, and morphological and behavioral data that the Sonoran and Mojave populations of the desert tortoise, G. agassizii were distinct species. [6]