This article was written by Albert Otkjaer for Vlast.kz and published on August 19, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The vast ...

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Boasting more than 80 distinct ecosystems, Florida is a biodiversity hot spot. In fact, more than 4,000 animal species are native to the Sunshine State. In the heat of summer, a growing number of ...

For more than a century, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change from the calm shade of an enclosure in San Diego. Known as Gramma, she arrived long before jet travel and streaming ...

April 10 is the annual Gopher Tortoise Day. Without this keystone species, entire ecosystems in Florida and other states would unravel. NPCA is working to save them, and here’s how you can help. On a ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...