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