Army’s Desert Tortoise Translocation Program Suspended due to Lawsuit
In order to expand training operations at Fort Irwin, CA, the Army began relocating 770 desert tortoises in March 2008. Coyotes immediately began killing the relocated tortoises. In response to a lawsuit filed by The Center for Biological Diversity to stop the translocation, the Army suspended the operation. Ileene Anderson, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity explained:
We predicted that the translocation of tortoises from Fort
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