desert tortoise

Construction can resume on a massive Southern California solar energy project after wildlife officials determined it will not jeopardize the threatened desert tortoise, federal officials said Friday.

The size of a solar project in the Mojave Desert has been cut nearly in half to save habitat for the endangered desert tortoise.

The San Diego Zoo is showing off work it's doing at a Las Vegas-area center to help repopulate an endangered species of desert tortoise.

The federal government has agreed to consider whether a desert tortoise whose population has declined by half in the past 20 years warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act.