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Python invasion has exploded out of the Everglades and into nearly all of southern Florida, new map shows

Burmese pythons are too good at what they do — they’re nearly undetectable to both humans and their prey, they barely need to move and when they do they’re deadly. On top of that, they have lots of babies.

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Signs of Everglades recovery emerge. Long way to go but ‘trending in the right direction’

After decades of planning and pleading for political support and dollars to restore the Everglades, there are growing signs that the massive multibillion-dollar effort is beginning to “get the water right.”

Miami Herald

Everglades restoration moves closer to reality with a crucial groundbreaking

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s been 23 years since Congress passed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, an ambitious program to undo, at least in part, the damage done by humans to one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet.

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‘We’re down.’ Flight 401 crashed in Miami 50 years ago. Survivors now have a message

MIAMI — Beverly Raposa switched seats from her regular position in the galley for a flight from New York to Miami.

Miami Herald

'Tis the season to be jolly: singing Christmas carols together isn't just a tradition, it's also good for you

On a December night 50 years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed in the Everglades, Florida. Miraculously, 77 people survived the initial impact but then endured a traumatic wait for rescue in the alligator infested swamp, surrounded by wreckage and jet fuel.

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Rustic fishing towns faced Ian’s wrath. Now at the height of tourism season, ‘We’re in a lot better shape’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Chokoloskee and Everglades City, two fishing villages-turned-travel-destinations that sit next to each other on the cusp of Everglades National Park and the Gulf of Mexico, have seen more than their share of hurricane destruction — most recently Donna in 1960, Wilma in 2005, and then Irma…

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Defecting Cuban pilot commandeers plane, lands safely on isolated Everglades strip

MIAMI — The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on an isolated, mostly forgotten airstrip in the middle of the Everglades.

Miami Herald

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Plane commandeered from Cuba, lands safely in Florida Everglades. The pilot ‘appears to be fine’

MIAMI — The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when someone in a old Soviet-era cropduster took off from the island just 90 miles north of Key West and landed somewhere west of Krome Avenue in the Everglades.

Miami Herald

Hurricane Ian left fingerprints on Everglades but wasn’t a mangroves killer like Irma

MIAMI — From the air, the fingerprints of Hurricane Ian’s journey through the Everglades are easy to see: swaths of beach washed away on Cape Sable, a plume of coffee-colored water leaking into the teal of Florida Bay and a stray sailboat shoved violently ashore, taking down 10 feet of…

Miami Herald

Chilling X-ray shows python after it was swallowed by cottonmouth snake

The 43-inch cottonmouth consumed the 39-inch python in the Florida Everglades

The Independent UK

Florida scallop season is here, so we went on the hunt

CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. — Scalloping is one of those time-honored traditions that every Floridian should do at least once, like trudging through the Everglades or throwing a hurricane party. But after spending more than half of my life in the Sunshine State, I’d never crossed it off my bucket list.

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Python hunt! 800 compete to remove Florida's invasive snakes

More than 800 competitors will be trudging through the Florida Everglades for the next eight days, in search of invasive Burmese pythons that will bring in thousands of dollars in prize money

The Independent UK

2022 Ford Bronco Everglades First Drive Review: Try The Mac And Trees

The Bronco Everglades’ winch and snorkel aren’t game changing, but this special trim is a reminder about how easy going wild is.

Motor1

Hissstory: Whopping 216-lb Python Caught In Florida Is Believed To Be Biggest In State’s History

Experts caught the 18-foot, pregnant female after using a male python as bait.

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Daily Mirror

Largest ever snake weighing 98kg and reaching 18ft captured with 122 eggs in belly

Biologists wrestled the 18ft and 98kg female Burmese python - a species "wreaking havoc" and considered a pest in Florida's Everglades - for 20 minutes after luring it into a trap in December 2021

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Want to hunt pythons in Florida this summer? This professional has tips

Registration has opened for Florida's annual python hunting challenge. The competition is not for the faint of heart.

The Independent UK

Burmese python hunt in Florida Everglades slated for August

Florida's annual prize-winning hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades is slated to begin Aug. 5

Miami Herald

Calling all snake hunters. Florida opens registration for this year’s python challenge

MIAMI — Have you ever wanted to become a snake hunter in the Florida Everglades? Now’s your chance.

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Take a ride with Paul Wilborn’s ‘Florida Hustle’

"Florida Hustle" by Paul Wilborn; St. Petersburg Press (310 pages, $19.95)

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Wildfires that burned more than 26,000 acres in the Everglades have been contained

After wildfires burned more than 26,000 acres of land in the Everglades west of Sunrise and west of Boca Raton, the fires have been contained, a Florida Forest Service spokesman said.

The Independent UK

50-year-old employee hospitalised after horrific tiger attack at wildlife sanctuary

The Florida man suffered his injuries at Wooten’s Airboats in the Everglades

Motor1

2022 Ford Bronco Everglades Side Graphic Can Measure Water Depth

The topographical map fender motif includes cutouts that could help drivers measure water crossings.

Miami Herald

DeSantis blasts Florida Senate’s attack on Everglades funding

With three short sentences, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday delivered a public rebuke to a Senate budget proposal to change the way state agencies advocate for federal Everglades policy and affect the way state dollars are released for restoration projects and accused legislators of leaving his agencies “in the dark.”

Miami Herald

Sugar, water don’t mix in the Everglades. New fight erupts over bill to change funding

MIAMI — A bill changing state policy toward Everglades restoration, and pitting the Senate president’s priorities against the governor’s, advanced through its single committee stop Wednesday morning despite hours of passionate protest from clean water advocates.

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Ford Bronco Everglades Teased In Swampy Video, Debuts February 10

Winch and snorkel are confirmed.

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