including the Mojave desert tortoise. The tortoise is listed as a threatened species by the federal government, but California officials earlier this year escalated its status to endangered.

It's important to note that desert tortoises in California and the Southwest are two separate species. In a 2011 study, scientists declared that tortoises living north and west of the Colorado River — ...

Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted u ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

“These bees may be tiny but they play an important role in maintaining the health of the unique Mojave Desert ecosystem.” The Fish and Wildlife Service found that protecting the native bee as ...

A solar farm in the Mojave Desert is destroying thousands of iconic Joshua trees. It could be the tip of the iceberg as the ...

Amid the vast Mojave Desert sits an oasis, one brimming with rare flora and fauna that exists nowhere else on earth Nevada’s 23,000-acre Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a world of clear ...

Podcast Episode A New Monument for an Old Hero? Dec 2024 A proposed Chuckwalla National Monument near Joshua Tree National Park would protect the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise and help many other ...

If it’s spring, it’s gotta be Mojave Max time in Southern ... along with the desert tortoise’s recent classification as a threatened species in 1990. “We were outdoors from the time ...

Mojave National Preserve and other California desert national ... and over 240 naturally occurring seeps and springs that provide sustenance for a wide variety of desert wildlife species. The preserve ...

Kelly Herbinson, wildlife biologist and executive director of the nonprofit Mojave Desert Land Trust, says colleagues at Fish and Wildlife confirmed the agency’s loss of 400 staff members last ...

In San Bernadino County, Mojave Desert Land Trust was awarded $577,000 to acquire an 80-acre property south of Yucca Valley within a wildlife corridor that connects Joshua Tree National Park with ...