Will Indian River County let RSG of Vero Beach build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in Wabasso?

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to relocate ...

In Florida, a boom in new housing developments is intruding on the habitat of gopher tortoises, a 9- to 11-inch-long, 10-pound, 60 million-year-old species that has been federally protected since ...

Gopher tortoises share their burrows with more than 350 other species, and are therefore referred to as a keystone species. In Florida, the gopher tortoise is listed as threatened.

According to the FWC, the gopher tortoise was listed as a “species of special concern” in Florida in 1979 and was reclassified as a “state-designated threatened species” in 2007.

Gopher tortoises share their burrows with more than 350 other species, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Relocation is on a permit or reservation basis, and ...

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In Florida, a boom in new housing developments is intruding on the habitat of gopher tortoises, a 9- to 11-inch-long, 10-pound, 60 million-year-old species that has been federally protected since ...