🐢 What should you do if you see a gopher tortoise on the road? Our Coffee & Conservation crew got hands-on answers from expert Carol McCoy and the tips might surprise you. ✅ How to help a tortoise cross safely ✅ What to do if it flips on its back ✅ Why these burrow builders are crucial for Florida’s ecosystem We hosted nearly 50 guests this month to learn, connect, and take action. 🌱 Conservation starts with small steps and shared knowledge. 📍Join us next month as we continue to spotlight the
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Happy Turtle Tuesday! 🐢 This week's species spotlight is the Gopher Tortoise. The Gopher Tortoise is considered a keystone species here in South Florida! This means that they are extremely important for the overall structure of their ecosystems. Due to habitat loss, these amazing creatures have unfortunately become a state-designated threatened species! Gopher tortoises are primarily herbivorous, meaning that their diet is predominantly plant based. Some of their all-time favorite foods are gra
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✨Intern Highlight✨ Our animal care tech intern, Emily, helped out with a gopher tortoise release last week! By buildling a starter burrow for this young gopher tortoise, eventually this burrow could be 30 feet long! Thank you to our staff member and intern for getting this important keystone species back into the wild!🐢 #FloridaWildlifeHospital #gophertortoise #burrow #keystonespecies #wildliferelease #RescueRehabRelease #floridawildlife #florida #wildliferehab #KeepingWildlifeWild | Florida Wi
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Gopher Tortoises are State Threatened and declining in number in Florida due to development. Healthy and sustainable gopher tortoise populations need fairly large roadless areas (so they don't get smashed) and good groundcover, preferrably with lots of flowers and small fruits like Touch-Me-Not, Pawpaws and Gopher Apple. They also strongly prefer deep sandy soil to make their burrows in, like those soils that support sandhill, scrub, scrubby flatwoods, and mesic flatwoods. | Florida Native Plant
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