Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the East Lee Wildlife Stewardship Group felt heard at FWC webinars to give their input on the agency's gopher tortoise ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a mystery at a local nature preserve. The City of St. Petersburg notified the FWC in March after it ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — A proposed housing development on the Treasure Coast is threatening to displace hundreds of gopher tortoises, and it may be part of a bigger pattern playing out across the ...

Palm Beach Gardens City Manager Ron Ferris reacted Thursday after Stet News reported that a daily visitor to a city park worried that the city may have destroyed the habitat of a dozen gopher ...