Carson Peña of The Nature Conservancy releases an eastern indigo snake into a gopher tortoise burrow at the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve north of Bristol. Credit: Photo via Jim Turner/NSF ...

The snake release is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the species' population and restore Florida's longleaf pine ecosystem Forty-one federally threatened eastern indigo snakes recently ...

Eastern Indigo Snake. Photo by Ben Stegenga. Houston Chandler, Orianne Society's Director of Science, releases Eastern Indigo Snake into the wild in Alabama. Photo by Francesca Erickson. The Orianne ...

BRISTOL — In a quiet preserve along the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River, 41 eastern indigo snakes were released Tuesday into gopher tortoise burrows. The release, a longtime goal of federal and ...

The docile, nonvenomous eastern indigo snake is known for its lustrous, blue-black body; the reddish-orange hue on its chin, throat and cheeks; and its large size, as long as 7 feet from nose to tail, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 viable tortoise populations, according to a news release from the Georgia Department of ...

Biologists released 42 Eastern indigo snakes into their increasingly uncommon environment, the longleaf pine ecosystem in the Florida Panhandle. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative has successfully reached its goal of permanently protecting 65 viable gopher tortoise populations, as announced by the Georgia Department of Natural ...