The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these ...

The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises.

Desert tortoises are herbivores and munch on Bermuda ... a habitat that suits her needs in the Sonoran Desert. Most of her diet consists of our lawn, which she happily grazes on.

“Tortoises can starve if too much of their diet is made of grass and not enough of their diet is made of wildflowers,” according to Hilborn. The organizations Defenders of Wildlife, the Desert ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

Desert tortoises undergo their own form of hibernation ... and with this year having a wet spring, there’s a lot food options for Max to snack on and many flowers in bloom.