She’s spent 20 days at Honeymoon Island State Park urging drivers to slow down. It’s working. Max Chesnes is the Tampa Bay Times' environment and climate reporter, covering public lands, water quality ...

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 ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo lies a shaded grassy area where 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and burrowing — unable to return to the wild but safe ...

Maggie Serus is hard to miss, and that’s the point. It’s a searing summer morning at Honeymoon Island State Park, and just beyond the toll booth, donning a bright orange vest and a leopard print ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to relocate ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...