The LA Times covers translocation efforts after a 2001 Ft. Irwin military expansion right over endangered Desert Tortoise’s habitat. Now, the translocated tortoises are encountering coyote predation, an oversight conservationists maintain should have been foreseen.

A good video clip including Western Watersheds Project’s Michael Connor’s take is included in the article:

Slow, Steady — and under siege
LA Times

Photograph Copyright Micheal Connor