The gopher tortoise is a protected species in Florida, and their burrows in the Hernando County landfill are in two sections. Bids will be taken from specialized contractors to relocate them. Leer más.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been used widely in zoology and ecology, particularly in herpetology. The use of spatially explicit analysis has increased during the last decade, with the consequent expansion of GIS application in ecology.  Leer más.

In response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 47,383 acres as protected critical habitat for the Sonoma County population of the Californiatiger salamander. Leer más.

Working with the government of Lao PDR, the Wildlife Conservation Society has helped to successfully hatch a clutch of 20 Siamese crocodiles, a species threatened across its range by hunting, habitat fragmentation and loss, and other factors. Leer más.

Publication of the genome of the North American green anole lizard has filled a yawning genome-sequence gap in the animal lineage. Leer más.