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☆ It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
  + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +14 min
For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Lake Okeechobee 10 miles Lake Okeechobee 5 miles Lake Okeechobee 5 miles Algal bloom extent on June 12 Source: Satellite image by Landsat By Leanne AbrahamRainy season is just starting, but by late June the lake’s level was roughly two feet higher than the United States Army Corps of Engineers would like. Sunrise over Pahokee and Lake Okeechobee. “Like clockwork.”Similar outbreaks have struck lakes elsewhere, including Lake Champlain, Lake Erie and Lake Tahoe. Equally challenging to grasp is the idea that the whole new lake, as big as it sounds, will fill to capacity if only six inches of Lake Okeechobee is sent its way.
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☆ How to win a grand prize of $10,000 for hunting pythons in Florida
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The top prize of $10,000 will go to the participant who removes the most Burmese pythons. The participant that removes the most pythons will win a grand prize of $10,000 prize. There's also a $7,500 prize for the Grand Prize Runner Up, sponsored by the Bergeron Everglades Foundation, per Space Coast Daily. Invasive Burmese pythons are damaging Florida's natural ecosystems. Per the challenge's website, the training teaches competitors how to identify Burmese pythons, in addition to "humane killing methods."
☆ Video shows a 5-foot alligator being cut out of a python after the snake swallowed it whole
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Scientists in Florida cut open a Burmese python to find a largely intact alligator inside. She shared a video in which the alligator was pulled out of the 18-foot-long python's digestive tract. A post shared by Rosie Moore (@rosiekmoore)The python was found and killed by employees at Everglades National Park. Last month, a missing 54-year-old woman in Indonesia had been swallowed whole by a python, according to police. A scientist in Indonesia said the woman was likely swallowed by a reticulated python, which can grow up to well over 20 feet long.
☆ Florida teen wins competition by capturing 28 Burmese pythons
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
MIAMI — A 19-year-old South Florida man captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state’s ecology. Earlier this year, a team of biologists hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida. A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration on June 16, 2022, in Miami. Concepcion told the South Florida SunSentinel that he’s been hunting pythons for about five years, and typically looks for them at night because that’s when they’re on the move, seeking the warmth of roads. We are removing record numbers of pythons and we’re going to keep at it,” South Florida Water Management District Governing Board Member “Alligator Ron” Bergeron said in a news release.
☆ Giant invasive pythons run rampant in Florida and wreak havoc on native species — but python hunters are here to help
  + stars: | 2022-09-03 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Invasive Burmese pythons have decimated native species in Florida. The invasive pythons are feasting on native speciesSiewe is one of 100 licensed hunters contracted by Florida to catch and kill the invasive reptiles, which have wreaked havoc on the ecosystem and decimated native species. One of the largest of all snakes, pythons can grow up to 20 feet long and feast on animals as large as white-tailed deer. Paid to hunt — in the name of conservationWildlife officials are working on projects to estimate the python population, but the most successful effort to address the problem has been the python hunters, Kirkland said. "I know it sounds crazy, but it is the easiest way to catch these pythons," Siewe said, adding she's been bit many times.
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