The Importance Of Saving Florida's Everglades

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Us as humans we need to save Florida's Everglades. The Everglades is filled with rich bodies of waters swamps, marshes and bogs. All of these bodies of water are useful for animals especially endangered animals that need the everglades to survive and also for us humans the swamps marshes and bogs help slow down the hurricanes and storms that are heading to land. They are also ''known as “transition zones” because they are the link between water and land, and they have a unique combination of the characteristics of both. these “transition zones'' support plant and animal life ''.

One of the first steps we need to take is to take out the animals that don’t belong in the Everglades out. Pythons and anacondas are some snakes that don’t belong.

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