For our End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign, your Giving Season support helps us build the Gopher Tortoise Alliance’s first-ever rehab pens for injured tortoises! 🐢🩺 Gopher tortoises are running out of safe habitat — and the ones left face constant threats from cars, dogs, and development. These pens will give recovering tortoises a safe place to heal before returning to the wild — a critical step in protecting this threatened species. 🏥🌱 When you give, you’re protecting the tortoises, their bu
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As one of the oldest living species on the planet, gopher tortoises are now threatened. Nesting season is from May to mid-July, with typical clutches of 4-8 eggs. Hatchlings emerge from the nest from late August through early November and face immediate threats. As TNC’s Sid Godfrey explains, TNC’s efforts to protect and restore the gopher tortoise population begins with collecting tortoise eggs from the wild. We thank the Mississippi Army National Guard for providing funding as well as logistic
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