Essay On Florida Everglades

Have you seen or mabye visited the Florida Everglades? Have you heard of the huge problems the Everglades face? The Florida Everglades were once home to many rare, endangared, and exotic species. But now, lots of this is gone. The everglades get effected by Sugarcane farm”s, face many water supply droughts and have a very weak ecosystem. To begin with the Florida Everglades are dramaticly affected by the 440,000 acres of sugarcane farms that it host’s. Thee farms are put in the Everglades since sugarcane grows so well there. Most people would think that these plants are a good thing. But in this case these plants are not they are grown with fertilizer’s that are very harmful to the surrounding enviroment, which happens to be the Everglades. Source 2, called “Can we Fix the Water Supply” supports this when stating “as the Sugarcane crop is harvested, fertilizer used on the plants to ensure a succsesfull crop, introduces chem and excess amounts of nitrogen and Phosphorus in the delicate ecosystem.” This shows how much …show more content…
The Florida everglades are getting extremly effected by droughts of water since thousand’s at the species of plants and animals that live there are dependent on the clean water that is suppose to be in the Florida everglades. One cause for this water to be unhealthy is the waste made from sugarcan farms as talked about in the earlyer paragraph. But another reason their are water issue’s is that in 1905 settlers began converting land in the everglades. Source 1, “The Florida Everglades” says “The constitution and population increase in the Everglades upset it’s fragile ecosystem, and cut off the flow of fresh water to the Everglades. As a result, the quanity and diversity of the wetlands wildlife decreased and 50% of the original wetlands of south florida no longer exist today”. This quote shows how much damage humans have done to the Florida