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Obama pumps $80 million into Everglades as some environmentalists ponder motive

Region’s restoration is a popular topic during election years, some say, but more money and attention is still needed Senior loyalists in the Obama administration seized a valuable election-year opportunity to talk up the president’s environmental credentials today as they announced an increase in funding to restore the Florida Everglades.…

Expectations of Burmese pythons overrunning Everglades called ‘premature’

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Reports that Burmese pythons are devouring almost entire populations of mammals in the Florida Everglades are premature, according to some exotic species experts and a co-author of a widely quoted study. The idea of pythons annihilating the Everglades made headlines after a January…