Collapsed burrows. Alarmed neighbors. Slow agency response. The destruction of a once-thriving gopher tortoise community in Lehigh Acres last week typifies what’s happening to the threatened species ...

It’s hard to say if they were embarrassed, but two rattlesnakes were caught snuggling in a tortoise burrow by Florida reptile researchers. A paparazzi-style video of the rendezvous was posted March 5 ...

As development continues across Northwest Florida, research, permitting, and on-the-ground conservation remain tightly ...

But it’s not alone in there. More than 300 other animals, including rare and threatened animals like indigo snakes and gopher frogs, use gopher tortoise burrows and some of them live nowhere else.

One of Southwest Florida's most beloved reptiles is finally getting celebrated the way it always deserved to be. Gopher Tortoise Day is April 10, with the goal of raising awareness for the threatened ...

Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were rattled after finding a surprise inside a gopher tortoise burrow. According to an Instagram post from FWC Research, a pair of ...