How can I adopt a Sonoran Desert tortoise? You can apply to adopt a tortoise through the Game and Fish Department.

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

Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department seek a home where they can happily crawl around and burrow in.

Prospective adopters must build a burrow to protect tortoises from Arizona's extreme temperatures. These lifelong companions can live up to 100 years and enjoy a plant-based diet.

The administration appears to be using little more than body art to deport people that it says are members of Tren de Aragua, a move that critics say ignores decades of protocol.

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find ...

For the desert tortoise, an approximately 1-foot-long reptile found in desert valleys across California and the American Southwest, a full lifespan can be up to 80 years. So while the Mojave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

PICACHO, Ariz. (AP) — How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a state Department of Public Safety ...