The humble tortoise is perhaps one of the most ... Native to Southern Namibia and South Africa, this padloper species is found in an arid region known as Namaqualand. Their name, padloper ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

In southern Madagascar, locals and sanctuary staff united to save thousands of critically endangered radiated and spider tortoises swept ... stands as one of South Africa's most enduring portals.