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Mojave desert tortoise officially joins California's endangered list

A desert tortoise in the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area in California City in 2022. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave ...
Mongabay

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Researchers are using a button-shaped device to gather data about desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) and their habitats in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Using iButtons, the researchers ...
Salon

California desert tortoises are hurtling toward extinction. Saving them won’t be easy

California’s Mojave Desert has become the backdrop of choice for many Instagram influencers who dig the aesthetics of Joshua trees and the otherworldly arid landscapes. Joshua Tree National Park now ...
insider.si.edu

The status of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the United States / Kristin H Berry, editor, in collaboration with Lori Nicholson, Frederick B. Turner, and Peter Woodman

"Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the Desert Tortoise Council on Order No. 11310-0083-81, March 1984." ...
KTLA

California designates Mojave desert tortoise as endangered

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An iconic Southern California desert dweller ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Rattlesnakes are Taking Over CA as Desert Tortoises Near Extinction

While poisonous rattlesnake numbers are growing at an alarming pace in California as the summer approaches, their fellow Golden State reptilians, desert tortoises, are rapidly becoming a former ...