Welcome to the Everglades!

There are a lot of endangered animals in the Everglades. If we don’t keep protecting them, inside and outside the Everglades, they could become extinct. Some of these animals are the American Alligator and Crocodile, Florida Panther, Manatee, Green Turtle, and so many more! Not all the animals there are endangered: some have a lot of their species all over the world, and others are just on the brink of being en...

There are many threats to the Everglades. 3 main ones are water control, introduced species, climate change, and invasive species. Invasive species is a main one, so I will talk about that. Invasive species is when a plant or animal from a different place comes to another ecosystem, and all the organisms already there haven’t adapted to being around this new species.

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United States. National Park Service. "Everglades National Park Quick Facts." National Parks Service. U.S. Department ...

There are 8 main ecosystems in the Everglades National Park. They are hardwood hammock, pinelands, mangrove, coastal lowlands, freshwater slough, freshwater marl prairie, cypress, and marine and estuarine.

• A hardwood hammock is a lot of broad-leafed trees that grow on a natural rise of a couple inches in elevation.

• Pinelands (or pine rocklands) are forests that gro...

The Everglades story starts in the 1800s. American Indians and African slaves hid there, even though the environment was wild and sometimes dangerous. And, members from the Seminole Indian tribe hid here from U.S. soldiers, who were walking the "Trail of Tears". But even so, in 1830, a lot of American-Indians were forced to leave the Everglades. This was because the Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, affecting the American Indians in t...