The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable ...

Looking for a winter job? The Mojave Desert Preserve has announced a limited number of job openings with the goal of ...

Tortoises in the western Mojave Desert have been hardest hit, according to state wildlife officials. Researchers found a 54% reduction in the number of animals there between 2001 and 2020 ...

In this image provided by the Clark County Desert Conservation Program taken from a video monitor, Mojave Max, top, and another desert tortoise emerge from their burrow, Monday, April 24, 2023, at ...

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 ...

The Mojave desert tortoise was once common throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of California, Nevada, and Arizona but declined by an estimated 90% in the last 20 years, according to the SDZWA.

The species is critically endangered. “The tortoise is an iconic species that is closely associated with the western Mojave desert and the health of the ecosystem, and yet we see alarming declines in ...

Officials in Nevada said a desert tortoise named Mojave Max has emerged from his winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas. Max made his appearance at 3:40 p.m. Monday.

Family says that their desert tortoise makes a perfect pet. (Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mojave desert tortoises, like this one photographed in April, are finding new homes across Utah.

Mojave desert tortoise The Mojave desert tortoise has a high domed shell, 8 to 15 inches in length, with prominent growth lines. Its limbs are stocky and covered in large scales.

Desert tortoises’ native habitat is the Mojave Desert shrubland from about 1,000-4,000 feet in elevation. Their range extends across the southwestern United States (Nevada, California, Arizona ...