Arizona game and fish managers want to find homes for desert tortoises that have been abandoned or bred in captivity.

or Gopherus agassizii — are officially a different species from tortoises in Arizona and Mexico, previously called "the Sonoran population of desert tortoises" and newly dubbed Morafka's desert ...

Sonoran desert tortoises are a protected species in Arizona. Therefore, it’s illegal to hold them captive as pets unless by legally adopting them through the state’s tortoise conservation ...

Tortoises sleep through the winter ... it’s relatively easy to set up a habitat that suits her needs in the Sonoran Desert. Most of her diet consists of our lawn, which she happily grazes ...

Behind the scenes, The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens’ conservationists work locally and abroad to safeguard animal species, ...

A Tuesday ruling finds 6,000 miles of dirt roads set aside for motorized recreation ignored studies showing high death rates ...

Pima County Sheriff's Department humanely removed ten Kunekune pigs, three dogs, a gopher snake, a desert tortoise, six sulcata tortoises, two red-eared slider turtles, and one deceased Sonoran ...