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Video of Burmese python eating deer in Florida Everglades serves as dangerous reminder, scientists say

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/video-burmese-python-eats-77-pound-deer-in-florida-everglades/

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Port Everglades corals being surveyed ahead of widening $1.3 billion project

"Some of the last remaining staghorn corals now in Florida are here around Port Everglades," Ross Cunning, a research biologist with Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, said on a warm morning off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Beach.

Local 10′s Louis Aguirre joined researchers led by coral scientists from the John G. Shedd Aquarium as the team documented how many living corals there are in the waters off Port Everglades, thriving against all odds.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/11/06/theres-so-much-at-stake-port-everglades-corals-surveyed-ahead-of-widening-project/

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Everglades and other Florida parks are affected by national park cutbacks

Following the Trump administration's massive cuts to the National Park Service this month, employees at a number of Florida national parks, including Big Cypress and the Everglades, were let go.

Why it matters: Layoffs may result in shorter park hours, longer lineups to enter, and perhaps fewer field trips for younger pupils.

According to a federal estimate published last year, $871 million was spent in 2023 by tourists visiting Florida's eight parks, trails, and historic sites.

Overall: Approximately 3,400 Forest Service and 1,000 National Park Service jobs are being eliminated countrywide by the Trump administration.

Situation: According to Bill Wade, executive director of the Association of National site Rangers, it is still unclear whose position has been terminated at each site, he told Axios.

https://floridainsider.com/travel/state-parks/everglades-and-other-florida-parks-affected-by-national-park-cutbacks/

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Across the nation, Americans are banding together against the damaging job cuts at national parks and wildlife refuges brought about by DOGE. The layoffs include park rangers, educators, scientists, emergency first responders and more — all critical personnel who act as stewards of these treasured and protected spaces.

At national parks and refuges in our region — including Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park and Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge — at least 23 jobs have been eliminated, according to news reports this week. 

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These lands belong to all of us. Together, we can protect them.

Take action now: Take 1 minute to tell your representatives in Congress that you do NOT support these damaging job cuts.

https://www.everglades.org/standwithnationalparks/?emci=5f73805d-bbf3-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=f27c4d44-39f4-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=557866

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Reservoir war: Is this plan a win-win, or a backstab to environmentalists?

[] A proposed rock mine in the Everglades has ignited controversy and threats against water managers.

[] The project highlights the challenges of balancing economic interests with environmental protection in Florida.

The vitriol came from where it usually does, the intractable pages of social media.

"These corrupt people should be executed."

"Violence will stop this."

"Pain works, every time."

One comment was so concerning it triggered a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office investigation.

The fury may be surprising in that it came from supporters of Florida's environmental community.


But sometimes that's what happens when you want to dig a big hole in the rich black muck of sugarcane country.

To those whose rancor spilled into the comments on social media posts, a proposed rock mine in a more than 8,600-acre swath of privately-owned farmland in southwestern Palm Beach County is a sneaky money-grubbing effort to bleed everything out of ground already corrupted by decades of agriculture.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/03/27/everglades-restoration-relies-on-clean-water-but-getting-there-is-hard/78343677007/

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Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose 'Alligator Alcatraz'

A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center.

Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. Highway 41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as Tamiami Trail — as dump trucks hauling materials lumbered into the airfield. Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs calling for the protection of the expansive preserve that is home to a few Native tribes and several endangered animal species.

https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-florida-everglades-protest-db34866aae64a3ff6880310403be40fd