Florida Everglades Research Paper

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Davione Lopez

Keeping the everglades alive is important. Plenty of animals are in endangered and

becoming extinct. Florida everglades is one of the best and biggest swamp to see in north

America. The Florida everglades is important because its an endangered environment. The

reasons why the everglades and swamps are important is because too much Pythons are taking

over the swamps, the animals are getting extinct, and the wetlands help the humans.

The snakes in the everglades is a big deal. The snakes eat all the animals and they take

over the other animals environment. 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
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It isn't fair how snake thank the animals

habitat because then if they don’t find or make one in time the animals could end up dying. If

The snakes keep on over populating at a fast rate then the everglades animals will only be

Snakes.

The animals are getting extinct because of snakes. There are other things harming them

like plants and people. The swamps need more biodiversity. If the animals keep on dying from

the ways I listed then there would be less biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety of habitats and

Ecosystems. Biodiversity is a good thing because there would be plenty of plants and animals so

there is more choices for the animals. The food chain also is good the larger it is the better. If the

simple food chain mentioned above was the only possible choice for the animals involved

for instance, snakes could only eat rabbits, and hawks could only eat snakes then both snakes

and hawks would die out, should the rabbit population drop because of an outside factor, like

disease. Biodiversity strengthens an ecosystem by ensuring lots of options for hungry animals,

from hawks on down to rabbits article (are the everglades

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