Disturbing a desert tortoise in its native habitat is not only risky for the tortoise, it's illegal, state officials say.

The desert tortoise's story isn't over yet, and thanks to initiatives like "Time to Talk Trash," we're writing new chapters of hope every day.

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in ...

Desert tortoises are protected and can’t be collected from the wild, but many wind up with Game and Fish because of breeding among captive tortoises or because owners can no longer care for them.

It's an ideal location to store mechanized vehicles because the environment (lack of precipitation) won't cause any significant deterioration.

A long-awaited conservation plan proposed for the threatened desert tortoise aims to balance species protection with streamlined federal permitting across parts of a 15 million-acre Southern ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have ...

Another effort to help save the Mohave desert tortoise is being proposed, this time with the proposed removal of several hundred burros from within the Tass-Gold Butte Herd Management Area 60 ...

The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises.

Desert tortoises are supposed to be out in the wild, but they are also pets to thousands of households.

Wildlife officials with the Arizona Game and Fish Department are looking for good homes for 50 desert tortoises that will soon awaken from hibernation.