Death Toll now reaches three

With two adult gopher tortoises being hit by cars in about a week, and just a few feet away from one another, we weren't expecting to hear that a third was also killed by a car just a block away, but a juvenile tortoise was hit and killed on Dogwood Drive earlier this week. Neighbors saw the accident and said that they've noticed cars driving with excessive speed in the neighborhood.

These three deaths raise some important questions for all Marco Island residents: are more signs needed in gopher-tortoise areas? Speed bumps? More public education? How can we take action to reduce this terribly high negative impact on our gopher tortoise population?