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Geography in the News: The Everglades’ Python Solution
Posted by Neal Lineback of Maps101.com and Maps.com on February 14, 2013 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM and Maps.com* Florida’s famous Everglades National Park is experiencing one of its greatest ecological threats. Burmese pythons, which are native to Southeast Asia, are devastating the native wildlife of the Everglades. How the pythons reached South Florida and became a reproducing population of thousands that…
Posted by The giant invasive snakes that are thought to be breeding and munching their way through the native animals in Florida’s Everglades may have found their nemesis in the form of one of America’s most beloved pets, the Labrador retriever. “The scenario sounds like a low-budget movie from the 1970s: Humongous snakes are on the loose,…
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Carlton Ward begins his exciting journey through the state of Florida on a mission to traverse 1,000 miles in 100 days, drawing attention to the need to preserve and protect wildlife corridors throughout the state.
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Your celebration this season is, in part, brought to you by southern Florida, where almost 50 percent of the nation’s sugarcane crop comes from.
Giant snakes may not be about to invade much of the United States, after all. One of the more dire predictions of the consequences of climate change came from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) a few months ago: The giant Burmese python currently wreaking havoc in the Florida Everglades could find itself “comfortable” in as…
