Green Matters on MSN
California’s Mojave Desert Is an Off-Roading Favorite. It's Now Shut Down to Protect a Rare Animal
Mojave Desert tortoises are endangered. Before they disappear completely, officials have to do something to protect them.
The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...
Teia Collier on MSN
A lamp malfunction set a backyard enclosure on fire and the tortoise inside escaped at lightning speed
Most people assume tortoises are slow, plodding animals that would be among the last to escape danger. A three-year-old tortoise named Leo from Fullerton, California, turned that assumption completely ...
The Washington County Habitat Conservation Plan is seeking public input on a recreation plan for a 7,000-acre reserve.
The Mojave Desert near Los Angeles is full of hiking trails and adventure. Here are three trails near L.A. already bursting ...
Student-volunteers connect with nature and community during Service Day at UNLV's Center for Urban Water Conservation.
AZ Animals US on MSN
Inside the 120,000 Square Foot Learning Center Transforming a Utah Aquarium
On February 20, 2026, the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah, will debut its new Sam & Aline Skaggs Science Learning Center. With the addition of this 120,000 square foot facility, the ...
A woman with a heart for animals started a wildlife education center with a few animal companions from college, a boa constrictor, a desert tortoise, an Amazon parrot and a chinchilla. Jackie Navarro ...
Backyard Garden Lover on MSN
14 American Animals Protected by Law
This list covers 14 of those animals, some you’d expect and others that might surprise you. From familiar symbols of American wildlife to lesser-known species clinging to survival, these animals are ...
Some years ago, I decided to go green. When gas went to $4 a gallon I had enough. I thought to myself, there is some joker sitting behind a desk at a large petroleum company or some sheik in the ...
Monahans Sandhills State Park is right in your backyard. You can walk on sand dunes without driving to the beach. It’s like having a piece of the Sahara Desert in Texas. The park is perfect for easy ...
In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...
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