The Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base houses vulnerable young desert tortoises until they're hardy enough to withstand predators and drought. The endangered species' continued existence in the wild ...

leathery necks and lifespans of over 100 years A group of giant tortoises who have lived in captivity for decades and helped rescue their species from the brink of extinction were released into ...

Desert tortoises were once so plentiful that people ... The hatchlings are reared in captivity until they reach a certain length—Twentynine Palms uses a threshold of 110 millimeters, or about ...

Desert tortoises are herbivores and munch on Bermuda ... “People are still breeding them in captivity. They start out so small and then people don’t realize how big they get,” she said.

Robinson, a Sonoran desert tortoise ... to find homes for tortoises abandoned or illegally bred in captivity. Torts, short ...

Even though the population of the desert tortoise has exploded in recent years, most of those population gains have been in captivity tortoises which cannot be reintroduced to nature due to the ...

If risks associated with waif translocation to wild habitats could be managed, translocation could provide a preferable alternative to the current fate of many waif tortoises: euthanasia or a lifetime ...