Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s standing up for desert tortoises?

Wildlife · 4 groups work for them; these 3 lead

Oregon Natural Desert Association has 2 live federal cases across all its work

Likely to care

Groups likely to care about desert tortoises

These 3 groups are a guess from each group's stated mission and where it works, not a record of work on this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

Friends Group · Palm Desert, CA

Friends of the Desert Mountains

Acquire and preserve pristine desert habitat in the Coachella Valley.

12 staff + 100 volunteers80¢ to the workFounded 1987

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Stewardship · Bend, OR

High Desert Museum

Explore the connections between people and the high desert landscape.

112 staff + 150 volunteers83¢ to the workFounded 1982

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Friends Group · Bend, OR

Oregon Natural Desert Association

Protect, defend, and restore Oregon’s high desert.

2 live federal cases

18 staff + 115 volunteers75¢ to the workFounded 1987

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1 more work on desert tortoises

Also standing for them

California Wilderness CoalitionDesert tortoises are in their missionGrassroots

Your move

How to stand for desert tortoises

GiveGive to Friends of the Desert Mountains

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakComment and call

Open comment windows and call scripts for fights like this one, ready to send.

Public Lands Action Network FollowWatch the map

Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Desert tortoises have defenders. They need more.

3 more likely to care, Friends of the Desert Mountains with 12 staff + 100 volunteers. Find your way in.

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Sources and method

Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are on the record for desert tortoises: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-23. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.