Wildlife Society: Free-ranging Dogs Attack and Kill Threatened Desert Tortoises
June 24, 2026
June 24, 2026
BETHESDA, Maryland, June 24 -- The Wildlife Society, a wildlife conservation organization, posted the following news:
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Free-ranging dogs attack and kill threatened desert tortoises
It was somewhere around Daggett, just east of Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the dogs began to take hold.
Kristin Berry, a principal investigator and research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, had been studying the threats imperiled Ag . . .
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Free-ranging dogs attack and kill threatened desert tortoises
It was somewhere around Daggett, just east of Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the dogs began to take hold.
Kristin Berry, a principal investigator and research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, had been studying the threats imperiled Ag . . .