Beware of turtle holes in Georgia — because they could be hiding large alligators, the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division says. That discovery was made the hard way when biologists studying gopher tortoises peeped into a seemingly innocent burrow in Tattnall County, about 60 miles west of Savannah.
A brief recording of gopher tortoise “vocalizations” was shared online this week by Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab, which has been spying on tortoises in the Coastal Plain and recording their activities.
Thousands of acres of land in Camden County has been set aside for conservation. The purchase of the property is part of a continuing effort to protect...
Just above the Florida border, there’s a vast — and famous — swamp: the Okefenokee. It’s more than 400,000 acres of wilderness, with black water, pine...
