WAlTON COUNTY — A 55-year-old man was charged with three misdemeanors last month after he was found setting traps on a piece of land near U.S. Highway 90 to catch gopher tortoises, a threatened ...
Gopher Tortoise Day is April 10. NPCA is working to save this keystone species, because entire ecosystems in Florida and other states would unravel without it.
A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...