Fort De Soto Park Manager, Dave Harshbarger, first noticed the gopher tortoises on the beach. “We did have a gopher tortoise population in the park, but it was limited, 8 known burrows at that time.

State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination.

Reporter Timothy O’Hara delves into the life of a gopher tortoise, its burrow and its importance.

A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for unusable land.

This makes protecting gopher tortoises and their burrows vital not just for the survival of the species, but for the survival of Florida’s fragile ecosystem as a whole.

Gopher tortoise relocations spike amid development boom, but Florida running out of room Will Indian River County let developers build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in ...