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Mojave Desert Tortoise Faces New Threats in Federal Funding Freeze

Mojave Desert Tortoise Faces New Threats in Federal Funding Freeze

by Responsible herpetoculture - Apr. 15, 2025
Desert Tortoise Faces New Threats in Federal Funding Freeze

Mojave desert tortoise is more dire since a federal funding freeze. The grants awarded to protect it from being run over by cars.

Far from Washington politics, people in Nevada who want to save these strange-looking, sleepy-eyed reptiles rejoiced that U.S. Department of Transportation officials in their sleek office tower near the Washington Nationals Park decided to answer their call for help and award a $16.8 million grant to a Nevada Department of Transportation project.

The population of these disappearing and rare American desert creatures continues to decline amid the third month passes since this project were awarded funds and the grant remains undistributed—and may never be awarded.

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