The Center has been working for the Mojave desert tortoise since 1997. Challenging the Bureau of Land Management's grazing practices on arid public lands, we've helped protect millions of acres of ...

"The desert tortoise is in terrible shape, especially in the West Mojave, where it's in the worst shape. And it's partly due to this kind of habitat loss and the constant fragmentation," Belenky said.

The Mojave desert tortoise has been listed as threatened ... in most of the areas considered to be the best habitat are below the level of population viability, and many of them have been that ...

desert tortoise habitat, natural areas, scenic viewsheds and the integrity of adjacent wilderness study areas. Moreover, the project’s groundwater pumping could harm water quality and quantity at ...

Six months ago, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDWZA) and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens reintroduced 70 young tortoises to their native habitat, the Mojave Desert. In partnership with ...

In Riverside County, Oswit Land Trust was awarded $1.5 million for 642 acres in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains, preserving healthy coastal sage scrub, grasslands, and other habitats ...

Mojave Max, the mascot of the Clark County ... female tortoises that live with him in the preserve’s 15-acre desert tortoise habitat. Smith said Max will need to feel the temperature changes ...

Mojave Max, a desert tortoise mascot for the Clark County Desert ... that determines when Wattson wakes up in his fully enclosed habitat is the path of the sun, which has to reach down four ...

Mojave Max is the official mascot of the Clark County Desert Conservation Program. Clark County is hosting the annual Mojave Max Emergence Contest, where those who guess as closest to the exact day he ...