Business And Wildlife Groups Skip The Fight, Work Together To Save A Species

January 28, 2018btollesonRSS Sample

A female gopher tortoise, about 20 years old, at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center near Newton, Ga.

When an animal is listed as endangered that can be bad news for nearby businesses. That’s why Georgia’s biggest utility is helping to protect the slow-breeding gopher tortoise.

(Image credit: Todd Stone/AP)