Florida’s annual python hunt in the Everglades will run Aug. 9-18, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez announced Thursday morning at a news conference in Miami-Dade County. Burmese Pythons are an invasive species that pose a threat to wildlife in the Everglades. Florida pays hunters annually to catch the snakes. State-approved hunters can win up to $25,000 […]
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Invasive species are transforming the Everglades
Throughout the ’70s,’80s, and ’90s, Frank Mazzotti would see many rabbits as he drove down to his study site in Florida’s Everglades National Park. Every hundred meters or so, one of them would be sitting by the roadside — usually a marsh rabbit, sometimes a cottontail. But starting in the early 2000s, they began to […]
The Everglades python hunt is on! Snakes to be stalked in August. The prize is a lot bigger
Florida’s annual python hunt in the Everglades will run Aug. 9-18, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez announced Thursday morning at a news conference in Miami-Dade County. Burmese Pythons are an invasive species that pose a threat to wildlife in the Everglades. Florida pays hunters annually to catch the snakes. State-approved hunters can win up to $25,000 […]
Everglades City works to sort code enforcement, recoup administrative costs
Everglades City officials want to sort a messy and often drawn-out code enforcement process that frequently ends in reduced fines and forgone administrative fees. The city’s code enforcement board on Tuesday cut one landowner’s code violation fees to $7,500 from $75,250, plus administrative costs. It also continued for a second time the amount of administrative […]
“To put your child in danger like that is unbelievable” – tourists interrupt alligator’s meal to snap pictures in Florida Everglades
A group of tourists in the Everglades have been caught on camera throwing caution and common sense to the wind, and crowding around a large alligator eating a turtle to snap pictures. The Florida Everglades are home to over 200,000 alligators, so there’s a good chance that you’ll spot one on a hiking trip, but […]
Boat behind Gables home seized in crash that killed Ransom Everglades student, FWC says
Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Tuesday located a boat in Coral Gables that they say fits the description of the boat that struck and killed a 15-year-old Ransom Everglades student off Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach last weekend. The boat was docked on Tuesday behind the home of Carlos and Magaly […]
Investigators add details about boat that killed Ransom Everglades student by Key Biscayne
Investigators have updated their description of the hit-and-run boat that ran over a 15-year-old girl Saturday who was water skiing near Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach. It’s a center console boat with a light blue hull, multiple white outboard engines and may have blue or dark blue bottom paint, according to statement released Monday afternoon by […]
A Flamingo flock inspires hope. Have the rare birds returned to the Everglades for good?
For the last century, flamingos in Florida were more likely to be spotted on T-shirts and cups in a souvenir shop than flapping around in the wild. Then last summer, a flock of the rare and beautiful birds — a group is fittingly known as a “flamboyance” of flamingos — was blown to Florida on […]
Python caught in Everglades had blood-sucking tick filling its eye socket. See photos
It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s such a thing as a zombie snake, they found it: Half blind, starting to rot, but still dangerous. “One of the gnarliest things I’ve […]
Alligator attack at Everglades National Park sends man to Miami-area hospital: reports
A man was taken Sunday to a Miami-area hospital after an alligator bit him at Everglades National Park in Miami-Dade, according to reports. The attack happened around 4:55 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told the Miami Herald. The patient was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center, where he remained as of Monday, reported WSVN 7 News. […]
A Miccosukee-led plan could finally end new oil drilling efforts in the Everglades
Miles below Big Cypress National Preserve, land of elegant cypress trees festooned with air plants, there is oil. Not a ton of it, but enough to spark a small domestic drilling industry that continues today, decades after the land became the nation’s first national preserve and the federal government bought it all up. The environmental […]
There’s A Relic Runway From America’s Failed Supersonic Future Hiding In The Everglades
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped. When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest airport in the middle of Everglades, […]