Florida, Everglades and Alcatraz
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Researchers are now experimenting with animatronic, heat-generating rabbits that (they hope) can lure invasive pythons right to them
The Florida Python Challenge is held annually to raise awareness of Burmese pythons, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.
Florida nonprofits and activists call for the closure of the Everglades detention facility "Alligator Alcatraz" due to inhumane conditions, despite state officials claiming it meets standards.
Natural carbon sequestration by crops, grassland, soil, and oceans has a profound, positive impact on the planet. If rising sea levels reduce the efficacy of carbon sinks such as the Everglades, harmful carbon dioxide levels will only become more of an issue.
On Tuesday, several state nonprofits, doctors and families of detainees protested outside the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility, calling for its shutdown.
The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.
Naturalist tour guide Juan Macias is reflected in the tram's mirror as a tourist photographs an alligator in the Shark Valley area of Florida's Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.
Gators and pythons ready to attack? The rhetoric about Alligator Alcatraz simply isn’t true. ABC Action News Reporter Michael Paluska takes us on a trip to the Everglades.