"Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990...No more than 100,000 tortoises are thought to survive in the habitat where millions once burrowed across parts of Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada."
Read the entire article Desert Tortoise Faces Threat From Conservation center at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/desert-tortoise_n_3813133.html