Everglades to be further protected
2008-06-25 11:08:42 GMT 2008-06-25 19:08:42 (Beijing Time) SINA.com
(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)
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A black vulture flies over the Everglades, Florida, the US.
Florida has reached a tentative 1.75-billion-dollar deal to buy the largest US sugar producer and turn its vast swaths of farmland into reservoirs to protect the fabled Everglades wetlands.
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