gopher

Hello, I’m new to the forum but read through a ton of threads before signing up. I’m in Florida and found a baby tortoise in my backyard a few weeks ago that my dog had pinned into a corner. He didn’t look very healthy so I brought him inside. When I did a quick search and, from pictures, I...

A adult Gopher tortoise has dug a burrow about 10 ft from a very busy road at the end of my street and I would like to know if anyone has ever tried to relocate one. I have seen several people intentionally run over tortoises here even adult Gophers.

This 3-month old baby gopher tortoise is one of dozens of the animals that were hatched at special facilities at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. When they are bigger, they will released in the wild as part of an effort to build up populations of gopher tortoises and help keep them off the...