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Saving Slowpoke, Barstow, CA (2025)

Our goal is to accomplish this through community outreach and involvement, specifically in underrepresented communities.

02/21/2025

In the Mojave, where the sun scorches the earth and water is a ghost, our favorite slow-moving survivor endures. The ancient and endlessly patient Desert Tortoise carves a life from the dust. It spends most of its days beneath the earth waiting, only emerging to eat and drink when the desert occasionally allows it.

The tortoise’s shell, worn by time, holds stories of survival… of outlasting drought, heat, and the unrelenting odds. It is a living miracle. In a world that rushes, it moves with purpose, proving that patience and resilience are the true measures of strength.

In uncertain times, we could learn from our friend the tortoise. Stand firm, move forward, and endure because survival isn’t just about the fight—it’s also about resilience.

01/24/2025

HUGE win for tortoises!

In case somehow you missed it in January 14th President Biden designated Chuckwalla National Monument, a 624,000 acre area just south of Joshua Tree National Park. Over 2/3rd of this new monument is designated as critical habitat for the Mojave Desert Tortoise and this area is also considered a vital conservation unit for the tortoise.

What does this mean?

This area was once a patchwork of different protected areas all with different levels of protection and management needs, it is now uniformly protected as a monument. That means ONE management plan will be drafted to best guide the bureau of land management on how they maintain this area for the foreseeable future.

We have spent so much time in this area and it truly is a paradise for desert tortoise and now it is a southern anchor for this amazing species!

Huge thank you to the coalition as well as well as all of YOU for accomplishing this massive success for our desert and the desert tortoise!

12/29/2024

Yes, we’ve been off the socials for a stretch. Life happens! But like the tortoises we love so much when resources become scarce we just take it easy and keep on hanging in there!

We also have some REALLY amazing news to share in the coming weeks. What we will say now is that resource availability is definitely changing in a positive way and we are looking at a new era of Saving Slowpoke! You will definitely be seeing more from us in 2025!

Until then, Happy New Year and as always, please hit our DM’s with any and all desert tortoise questions!

05/24/2024

Happy World Turtle Day!

To celebrate, please amplify and sign in to the petition in our bio!

Chuckwalla National Monument and the Expansion of Joshua Tree National Park would protect over 400,000 acres of critical habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise!

Let’s urge to sign this monument into existence using the Antiquities Act and give our tortoises a massive amount of protected habitat! If you haven’t heard, the Mojave Desert Tortoise was recently up-listed to Endangered under the California Endangered Species Act! So it is even MORE imperative that we protect as much habitat for them as possible!

Also follow to stay up to date on the monuments progress!

05/07/2024

This is what it’s all about!

Huge thanks to for having us out to your beautiful new preserve.

So happy we got to connect with these budding young scientists and introduce them to some of the wildlife that depends on our desert tortoise for survival. It was also awesome to hang out with the wonderful folks from and hear about their efforts to protect their cultural landscape as a national monument. You know you have our support!

It’s always so cool when you see the smiles and appreciation for these animals happening in real time. Cass Pino (policy extraordinaire and event photographer) did an awesome job in capturing those moments. We always try to encourage young people hold on to their passions for dear life. Passion for our tortoise and the protection of our desert is what drives us and we just want y’all to know what that feels like so you can do good in whatever you decide to do.

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