The dwindling population has been most pronounced in the western Mojave Desert, where a survey found a 54% reduction in the number of animals between 2001 and 2020, representing the loss of ...

Nevada's desert landscape is filled with life that is hidden to human eyes. But when conditions are just right, typically ...

“The Western Mojave’s desert tortoises are sliding toward extinction, so it’s long past time for the Bureau of Land Management to curb these vehicles’ threats to the tortoises and all the rare plants ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered ... corals and more than a third of marine animals are threatened. Sadly, California ...

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal ... a series of measures to protect and relocate the animals, many environmentalists believed the plant ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... some tensions for desert habitats. In the Mojave, the 2013 arrival of the ...

The California deserts — the Mojave, Colorado and Great Basin — are prime ... is an ambitious undertaking that is envisioned to both protect irreplaceable desert habitats, plants, animals and ...