The Florida Everglades

Florida's Everglades has many values to Florida. Many animals live there, that's why many people would like to help to keep the environment clean. The Everglades is described as a swamp or forested wetland, the Everglades is actually a very slow-moving river. The Everglades, a famous region in Southern Florida, are a wetland ecosystem home to tropical and marshland plant and animal species. Many bad things in the Everglades have happened and is still happening, but also good things are happening. Many scientist are trying to decrease threatened and endangered species.

The Florida Everglades ecosystem is also the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Many animals live in the Everglades including the raccoon,
Exotic animals, such as Burmese pythons, and exotic plants, such as Brazilian pepper and Australian pine, displace natives and threaten to disrupt ecosystem balance. Pythons and anacondas aren’t normal inhabitants of the Florida ecosystem; the ones that have taken over the Everglades are ex-pets and their offspring (Are the Everglades forever ?) (paragraph 3).The snakes compete with alligators for food, even making a meal of a gator once in a while. They’ve crippled the Everglades’ populations of opossums, rabbits, bobcats and foxes, thus dominating the food web to such a degree that there’s not much of a web anymore and animals could go extinct. There are also plants that are hurting the native animals and the Everglades.Said in the article "Are the Everglades forever" it said that "some vine-like plants actually grow over original trees and plants), but growing so thick that they block water flow and movement of
For example, people are spreading the word against disposing unwanted pets, such as pythons, in the wild. They warn others about the consequences of releasing these animals in the wild. These consequences include the threat posed to the survival of native species in the Everglades. Additionally, scientists and members of the government have initiated a plan to restore the Everglades to a healthier state of being, called the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). To improve the Everglades’ landscape, improvement is possible. As the Everglades become a more livable environment, it will be easier for species to recover along with the land. And, as the ecosystem finds a balance, humans will be able to keep using the land’s resources, both for work and play (paragraph