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Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades

Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades

FromShort Wave


Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades

FromShort Wave

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When the U.S. government and state of Florida unveiled a new plan to save the Everglades in 2000, the sprawling blueprint to restore the wetlands became the largest hydrological restoration effort in the nation's history. Two decades later, only one project is complete, the effort is $15 billion over budget and the Everglades is still dying. The new podcast Bright Lit Place from WLRN and NPR heads into the swamp to meet its first inhabitants, the scientists who study it and the warring sides struggling to find a way out of the muck. Today, we hear an excerpt as environment reporter Jenny Staletovich tags along with wetlands ecologist Evelyn Gaiser to the remotest part of the swamp.
Released:
Jan 27, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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