In 2007, in response to growing urban sprawl and rules that allowed developers to legally kill, harm and entomb gopher tortoises in their burrows, Florida passed laws requiring the permitted ...

Three more specialty license plates will soon be available on Florida’s roads including ones supporting Israel, K9s and gopher tortoises. The “Florida Stands With Israel” and “K9s United ...

We then remove the product by gently scrubbing ... and are therefore referred to as a keystone species. In Florida, the gopher tortoise is listed as threatened.

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

LIKE THE IGUANAS AND EVEN THE FLORIDA NATIVE GOPHER TURTLES, CAN ACT DIFFERENTLY. SO WITH THESE GUYS, USUALLY ONCE THE TEMPERATURES GET DOWN INTO THE 60S AND BELOW, THEY’LL GO UNDERGROUND.