A former working cattle farm in Osteen, in Volusia County, officially opened as the D Ranch Preserve following a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. Conservation Florida, a nonprofit statewide land ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and ...

OSTEEN, Fla. – A new nature preserve in Volusia County will officially open to the public on Thursday, offering families and ...

The eastern indigo snake is native to the southeastern United States. It's the longest native snake in North America, reaching eight feet long. It's also an apex predator that will eat venomous snakes ...

Eastern indigo snakes are apex predators ... They find this shelter in gopher tortoise burrows, which are typically found in longleaf pine ecosystems. ABRP's restored sandhill habitat, a type of ...

Imagine standing on the edge of a wild, green expanse in Florida, where a panther prowls silently, a swallowtail butterfly ...

They can be explored on foot, bicycle or horse back Coyote, bobcat, deer, turkey gopher tortoises and Eastern indigo snakes are among wildlife which might be seen at the preserve. There are no ...

Commensal species benefiting from the burrows, like indigo snakes, alligators, frogs, mice, burrowing owls and insects, often need a safe place to raise their young or escape threats like forest fires ...

Gopher tortoise. Image by steve_byland via Depositphotos ... Stretching up to 8.5 feet long, the Eastern Indigo Snake is the longest native snake in the U.S. Its shiny blue-black scales give it a ...