Robinson, a Sonoran desert tortoise, has become a favorite among Arizona Game and Fish Department staff. Known for his ...

The Center for Biological Diversity today released documentation showing continued widespread damage to critical habitat for ...

Adopt a Desert Tortoise on World Wildlife Day and help give back with Arizona Lottery. To learn more, go to azgfd.gov/tortoise and arizonalottery.com/gives-back ...

“Once common throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of California, Nevada and Arizona, desert tortoise populations have declined by an estimated 90% in the last 20 years.” California’s ...

The video shows a woman coming from the backyard pen carrying one of the 100 pound tortoises and placing it in her car.

After years of living pet-free (save one vicious betta fish), my family and I decided to adopt a captive desert tortoise. Fittingly, it was a slow and steady process. In Arizona where we live ...

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 ...

Pam Johnson’s family has been part of the Leeds community for generations and previously had a cattle operation that would ...