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==About== | ==About== | ||
| − | + | According to the [[Conservation Centers for Species Survival]] [http://conservationcenters.org/species-conservation-priorties/desert-tortoise/]: | |
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| + | As a result of this threat and the importance of the desert tortoise, the [[US Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM) established the [[Desert Tortoise Conservation Center]] in 1990 as a refuge where injured or sick tortoises could be nursed back to health and to find safer locations for healthy tortoises that would otherwise be at risk from development. | ||
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| + | The desert tortoise began its career as a political token in 1993 when the BLM, in an effort to protect the tortoise from extinction, outlawed grazing on its properties within the tortoise's range and rancher [[Cliven Bundy]] subsequently continued to graze his cattle there while [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|refusing to pay the resulting fines]]. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
===Reference=== | ===Reference=== | ||