The Burmese Python is impacting the Everglades by slowly killing off the other animals and increasing their own population. An invasive species is a group of animals that are new to an ecosystem and take over a specific area. A population is a particular group, or type of people or animals in a specific area or country. Hurricane Andrew causing a reptile -breeding facility to be demolished, along with humans setting free pet snakes have made Burmese Pythons to be invasive to the Everglades, beginning in 1992. A species is a group of living organisms made up of similar individuals. In the graph labeled “Species Population Trends” it shows that the small mammals population rate decreases and the Burmese Python population rate increasing.
