While construction continues on the world's largest wildlife crossing in Agoura Hills, planning is underway for five more ...

Two desert wildlife crossings will hit the drawing board thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant, according to the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The two wildlife crossings along State Route 62 are ...

The recent death of a mountain lion trying to cross State Route 62 has added a renewed urgency to a state-funded project to construct two wildlife crossings over the busy highway in California’s ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens have reintroduced 70 critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises to their native habitat on Edwards Air Force Base. The ...

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Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in ...