The judge issued an injunction at the request of environmental advocates who had prevailed two years ago on the merits of their lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management.

A federal judge has ordered off-highway vehicle riders to steer clear of more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on ...

A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave ...

With the Northern Corridor Highway approved in Southern Utah, some of Utah's slower and smaller residents could be affected: ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

Desert tortoises began displaying behavior that did not align with long-established patterns. Movements, activity timing, and ...

Ravens are extremely successful, adaptable, opportunistic birds whose population has exploded in the Mojave over the last 60 ...

PHOENIX — It’s a rainy morning when tortoises at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center are taken from their dens for health evaluations. The sleepy, muddy creatures might not be too happy with the ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

More than 300 animals are available this year, mostly because people illegally breed them at home. Stick your neck out and adopt a desert tortoise What has four scaly legs and spends 90% of its life ...

The tortoise only trundles out, and concludes her cold weather brumation, right around the time when spring is starting to ...