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What is the alien invasion in the Florida Everglades?​

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Burmese Python Invasion of Everglades National Park, Florida
Over the past two decades, an alien predator has invaded Florida's Everglades National Park, causing damage to the entire South Florida ecosystem. The foreign Burmese Python has disrupted the entire animal population in the Everglades.
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The foreign Burmese Python has disrupted the entire animal population in the Everglades. These invaders from Asia have proved to be extremely detrimental to Florida’s ecological systems, based on factors including their size, rapid reproduction, predatory diets, and Florida’s weather and climate conditions. Due to these multiple elements, Burmese Pythons have taken over the Everglades and have shown no signs of stopping. The problem becomes even more difficult to handle when the environmental controls taken to remove these pythons fail to counter the increasing python population in the Everglades. In other words, because of the biology of these snakes, the problems they bring to the South Florida food chain and the lack of removal of the invasive predators, Burmese Pythons create major issues for the ecosystem and are likely to spread if not controlled quickly. Hope that is enough! :)
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