Volunteers Stop Bulldozers from Burying Tortoises Alive

July 6, 2012, www.care2.com | ” I got notice from them that a 38 acre site in Vero Beach was under construction. Unfortunately, this land was the home to dozens of the endangered gopher tortoises. A controversial state law in Florida allows developers to pay into a land management program, and then plow over gopher tortoise burrows condemning the tortoises inside to a slow death.”

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~ Vero Beach Humane Society, Florida, USA

Volunteers Stop Bulldozers, Move Endangered Tortoises out of Harm’s Way.

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A 38 acre site in Vero Beach was under construction and developers were planning to plow over gopher tortoise burrows

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