The Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC) Board approved more than $2 million in conservation grant funding. The move ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

Two young rhinos soon will be joining The Living Desert family, moving into a new $17 million, 4-acre habitat that's under construction just inside the zoo’s entrance. Rhino Savanna will be a ...

Camels rarely get the spotlight beyond being called the “ships of the desert.” Most people know they have humps, survive ...

Millions of years ago, before the Southwest was a desert, the Las Vegas Valley had lakes, marshes and streams that fed plentiful vegetation and animal life, including desert tortoises. As recently as ...

But the Fish and Wildlife Service said the review for the threatened Sonora chub will likely wait until fiscal 2027. The Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday it will assess whether the threatened ...

Pima County officials will try what they say is an innovative and less costly approach toward monitoring the success of their pioneering Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. But their plan to put more ...

The solar farm is proposed to be built on federal land in the Nevada desert. A coalition of conservation groups petitioned Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Monday to cancel her agency’s ongoing ...

A pistachio orchard can be seen in the background of this photo of a blunt-nosed leopard at Allensworth Ecological Reserve. (Photo by Mike Westphal) Most of the native habitat in California’s San ...

Most of the native habitat in California's San Joaquin Desert has been converted to row crops and orchards, leaving 35 threatened or endangered species confined to isolated patches of habitat. A new ...