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We love it, too, for the theatres of life away from the boulevards and theme parks: those sucking swathes of Everglades swamp ... It’s a ghost orchid, pollinated by the tongues of just two ...

CHICAGO – Gretchen Walsh clocked a stunning 54.76 seconds to win the 100m butterfly at the US Swimming Championships on June 5, coming up just shy of her own world record in a comfortable ...

Three hunters recently captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught the invasive snake near Everglades City just after ...

After years of careful experimentation, the Desert Botanical Garden (DBG) has celebrated a milestone in its effort to save an endangered orchid. For the first time since the project began in 2016, two ...

A longtime Everglades scientist is preparing to start a jail sentence in July in the latest chapter of a high-profile legal drama that has roiled Florida’s conservation community. A judge ...

The 375 is set up for hard-core fishing with a large cockpit, twin live-wells and a fully insulated fish box. But also offers comforts as well with electrically actuated shade and twin retractable ...

(WJW) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fears if action isn’t taken, the rare ghost orchid could soon be extinct. The FWS is now proposing to list the swamp-dwelling plant as an endangered ...

The elusive ghost orchid, found in just one national park, is one step closer to being saved. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a rule Wednesday proposing protection for the flower under the ...

(WJW) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fears if action isn’t taken, the rare ghost orchid could soon be extinct. The FWS is now proposing to list the swamp-dwelling plant as an endangered ...

The ghost orchid will be added to the Endangered Species List due to threats like poaching, habitat loss, and degradation. There are approximately 1,500 ghost orchids left in the wild. Ghost ...