Why Communities Matter:Sometimes it takes a village to make a difference for imperiled wildlife

摘要

Charlie Livio will never forget one morning in October 2014. A horticulturist for Oakland Park, Florida, Livio was surveying the city's Lakeside Sand Pine Preserve when he spotted a palm-sized gopher tortoise, a juvenile, scooting across the white sand—a sure sign that adult tortoises introduced to the reserve were not just surviving but reproducing. "It knocked my socks off," he recalls.