Florida wildlife officials remove 5,000 pythons from the Everglades
Wildlife officials removed 5,000 from the Everglades, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Burmese pythons are not naturally found in Florida. But the nonnative pests reproduce — and kill other species — so frequently that the state takes extraordinary measures to combat them. Each invasive python eliminated represents hundreds of native Florida wildlife saved. The invasive pythons became established as a result of escaped or released pets.
Amazon Deforestations at Record High
The first six months of 2020 were the worst on record for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with 3,069 square kilometres (1,185 square miles) cleared, according to INPE data, an area bigger than the nation of Luxembourg.
The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon has risen by 28 percent from July 2019, satellite data showed on Saturday, fuelling fears the world’s biggest rainforest will again be devastated by fires this year.
Brazil’s national space agency, INPE, identified 6,803 fires in the Amazon region in July 2020, up from 5,318 the year before.
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