Gopher Tortoises in the News

We are so excited to have been recently featured in two different newspapers, TCPalm and Vero News! News articles such as these are a great way to provide information to the public about gopher tortoises, their threats, and the research we are conducting in an effort to help protect them. Thank you to Sue Cocking and Tyler Treadway for sharing our story. We have officially reached 50% of our goal for this project – awesome! Thank you so much to those who have supported us thus far. For those of you who don’t know, we will only receive funds for our project if we reach our ultimate goal amount of $4,300. We really need these funds in order to be able to analyze all of the samples we have collected on the gopher tortoises here at Harbor Branch. Without these funds, we will not be able to retrieve the data we need to establish the health of this population or provide information that will help to conserve them. We appreciate your help in spreading the word about our project and our funding campaign! To read the articles recently published about the Harbor Branch gopher tortoise project, click on the links at the bottom of this page.

 

Juvenile gopher tortoises sampled this week at Harbor Branch

Vero News - “Declining gopher tortoise population spurs study by Harbor Branch scientists” by Sue Cocking

 http://veronews.com/2019/07/12/declining-gopher-tortoise-population-spurs-study-by-harbor-branch-scientists/ 

TCPalm - “Gopher tortoises: Study to determine if diseases, dwindling habitat cause low productivity” by Tyler Treadway

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2019/07/08/gopher-tortoises-do-diseases-habitat-loss-cause-low-productivity/1641476001/