Clark County commissioners voted last week to stop picking up and caring for unwanted pet Mojave Desert tortoises as of the end of the year. The county has been funding the care of the cast-off ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...

Diego, the Galápagos tortoise from the San Diego Zoo who helped save his species from extinction in a conservancy program on the Galápagos Islands, will be released into the wild in Española to enjoy ...

An international expedition to a remote Galapagos Island rescued enough tortoises to start a breeding program that may help resurrect an extinct species, investigators from Yale University report Sept ...

A Winter Haven man has giant Galapagos tortoises in his back yard and thousands more turtles at a breeding facility in the city. Wayne Hill's breeder tortoises are about 29 years old He gave Spectrum ...

The famed Galapagos giant tortoise named Diego – estimated at over 100 years old – fathered 40 percent of all tortoises on Espanola Island in the Galapagos and is officially retiring. He is credited ...

After participating in a breeding program at the San Diego Zoo for almost eight decades, Diego, a 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise, will be released to his native Española Island in March. During his ...