Why Is This Gopher Tortoise Head-Banging?

Gopher Tortoise: Facts, Films, Conservation Efforts, and Research

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

Big progress happening behind the scenes! 🐢🙌 We’re putting the finishing touches on our pens as we prepare to welcome our very first gopher tortoise patient. 🏥✨ Want to support our work? Visit the link below to donate and see our newly updated wishlist! https://www.gophertortoisealliance.org/donate #behindthescenes #bts #progress #wildliferehabilitation #tortoiserehab #KeystoneConservation #gophertortoisealliance #gophertortoises #gophertortoise #tortoise #tortoises #turtle #turtles #Tortoise

A different kind of vandalism: Spray-painted gopher tortoises on road to recovery