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    The everglades national park The everglades national park is located in southern Florida. The variety of this habitat has made it a sanctuary for many animal species even some that are in danger of extinction. Some of the animals that take sanctuary in this national park are an assortment of reptiles such as alligators and snakes, an assortment of birds and even the endangered manatee. The everglades national park was put on the world heritage endangered list in 1993 after the parks superintendent

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    What is it? Everglades National Park is an Endangered World Heritage Site and it is a natural sight. It is a tropical wetland environment and is sub-tropical. It is also home to flora and fauna including the red mangrove tree, the slash pine tree, panthers, alligators, crocodiles, birds, flamingos and insects. It is 1,542,526 acers large, so it is able to be the habitat to 800 endangered species. Where is it? The park’s coordinates are 25°19' N-80°56' W and is located in South Florida, USA at

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    For decades, Everglades National Park has been an iconic symbol of environmental stability and historical education. With having present day issues with the water supply, attempts to save the water supply and dealing with a major cost of nearly $1 billion to save the Everglades National Park, many obstacles lay before those trying to preserve the Everglades. The current dilemmas of the Everglades, is that the water supply. Of the original wetlands, only 50% remain meaning the rare and specific

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    Almost all of our family vacations and outings revolved around various parks and botanical gardens. We spent countless afternoons picnicking in the Everglades National Park. I was taught to consider even the smallest details and to value things often overlooked by others. Our bookshelves were lined with books about flora and fauna. My mother and I would habitually reach

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    Everglades National Park Everglades National Park is a great park. It has lakes, swamps, ocean, plants , and also, it has so much wildlife. If you like the ocean, and lots of plants , Everglades National Park is the place to go. The Everglades is in the state of Florida, the 27th state of America. The Everglades covers the whole southern end of the mainland of Florida. It is the sunshine state because of how much sun it gets every year. The capital of the state is Tallahassee, and the largest

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    Essay The Everglades

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    The Everglades On May 30, 1934, an Act was passed, which authorized a park to be created through public donations. Thirteen years later, through a combination of private, state and federal lands, an expansive wetland was hopefully immortalized as a national park. Everglades was the first national park that was preserved primarily for its biota, in lieu of scenic or historic values. Shortly after moving to Miami in 1925, Ernest F. Coe, made the Everglades Park

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    The Everglades Rachel Thompson BIO 100 January 11, 2011 Connie Cassidy The Florida Everglades is the state’s most highly visited park in the state. The Everglades is also home to thousands of animals, reptiles, and plants. Many tourist travels just to get a glimpse of the many exotic reptiles. Although, the Everglades is very beautiful it’s also one of the most endangered parks in the state. The park is endangered from humans and land developments. The state has laws imposed to

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    snakes in the state of Florida from the average garden snake to the very venomous Eastern Diamondback Rattle but so far the only one that has both citizens and politicians truly worried about are the Burmese Pythons that are located in the Everglades, a National Park located in southern Florida. Burmese Pythons have a beautiful patterned skin, a rapid growth rate, which is known as the largest snake of choice to be owned by human. During, captivate Burmese python are poorly taking care of; some turn

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    Home can't be grown again. The Everglades is home to many species but slowly those homes are being destroyed but human activities or by non-native animals being released and disturbing the food chain. In recent decades we have realized how much we benefit from the Everglades but they wont last long if the Everglades are not taken care properly. The Python and other invasive animals including plants that has recently made their mark on the Everglades by intruding on the food chain. Animals such as

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    Florida, pythons have established themselves across thousands of square kilometers including all of Everglades National Park (Boback et al. 2016). Research points to multiple instances of pet release to be the cause of their introduction to the Everglades as a foreign species (Snow et al. 2007). Python populations have significantly increased in both abundance and geographic range in the Everglades since their introduction, preying on a wide variety of native mammals and birds, posing a serious problem

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