Everglades News

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Amidst the glitz and glamour of Miami and Miami Beach is a hideaway whose secret is just now getting out. It's the Hotel Indigo Miami-Dadeland (www.miamidadelandhotel.com) in the growing downtown Dadeland business center on Miami's's growing south side.

One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons -- some thicker than a forearm -- were dumped into a pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence.Some hissed and lunged. Others coiled up under the brush and trees. For the next year all of them will call the pit home.

Check out some photographs from a canoe trip with Tom Rahill and a team of volunteers as they clear the canal, now known as the Bear Lake canoe trail. 

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced he is taking steps to have Everglades National Park added again to the List of World Heritage Sites in Danger by the United Nation’s World Heritage Committee.The Everglades was hastily

There could be a bounty on the head -- and frighteningly long body -- of the Burmese python, serpent scourge of the Everglades.State wildlife managers on Thursday informally ran the bounty idea by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar before his tour of the Everglades. Salazar, who also was given the opportunity to examine a live 16-footer captured in Everglades National Park, agreed it was worth looking into.

"Today's visit by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to the Everglades provides him an opportunity to see firsthand the critical need to restore our historic River of Grass.

A process to find a balance in Florida Bay between protecting the natural resources and protecting boater access ends one phase -- but a critical one -- on Friday.

What Katrina and Wilma started, wrecking crews finally finished in Everglades National Park. Flamingo Lodge, for a half century a landmark overlooking Florida Bay, has been reduced to rubble.

The Everglades might seem like a world away from inner-city Miami.But on Saturday, folks will be able to see alligators, wetlands and even a closed nuclear missile site when the National Parks Conservation Association host its eighth annual March for Parks event at Everglades National Park.Free bus rides will be provided, including from the Little Havana, Overtown and Florida City neighborhoods.

Everglades National Park, Fla.

It seems even Mother Nature is going through a recession.

A 15-mile paved cycling path, no traffic, with fresh air, wildlife and alligators.Lots of alligators.

When planning to travel through swamps, marshes, or river grass, one needs usually two things: time and patience. With both securely on my side, I set out to experience the natural life that exists in Florida’s greatest ecosystem, and most prominent National Park, the Everglades.

As part of its membership in the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, Mandarin Oriental, Miami i