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Email Activists Save Desert Tortoises
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Simone
- 95 days ago - all-creatures.org
The U.S. Army has told the U.S. Bureau of Land Management it plans to move 90 imperiled tortoises from Fort Irwin next month, despite the bureau's position that it will not participate in the effort because of uncertainty over how many of the reptiles
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New Desert Tortoise Translocation Put On Hold
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Cher
- 102 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
Today, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management halted plans to move an additional 1,000-plus federally and state-listed threatened desert tortoises from their current habitat on Fort Irwin to Bureau of Land Management lands. The Army's disastrous 2008 desert
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Steady Decline for Desert Tortoises in Utah
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Raven
- 573 days ago - sltrib.com
Due to draught and disease the population of desert tortoise in Utah is steadily declining. The population has dwindled from 3200 to now 1700. This unfortunate for a once abundant creature and icon of the desert, a Prehistoric symbol for native people.
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Coyotes Threaten Endangered Tortoises
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Cher
- 592 days ago - postchronicle.com
Hundreds of tortoises protected under state and federal endangered species law are being threatened by California's coyote population, scientists say. Biologists monitoring the endangered animals say that since 760 of the animals were moved into
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STOP Desert Tortoise Translocation! Sign Petition!
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Cher
- 593 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is listed as a federally protected, threatened species. This species is supposed to be protected by state and federal endangered species acts-yet threats to its survival are numerous. Destruction of tortoise-
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Army's Transfer of Mojave Desert Tortoises Tripped Up By Coyotes
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Cher
- 617 days ago - pe.com
Coyotes have killed at least 11 desert tortoises recently moved to make way for Army tank training exercises north of Barstow. The problem coyotes, thought to be attacking tortoises because the drought has left fewer rabbits in its wake, will be tracked
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Plan Calls for Killing Ravens to Save Desert Tortoise
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Cher
- 630 days ago - pe.com
Ravens caught preying on desert tortoises will be killed under a plan announced Wednesday by federal wildlife officials seeking to protect the reptiles threatened with extinction. The program will start in spring 2009 throughout the California desert, in
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