Mangrove

Burmese Python Invasion Tracked in Florida A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov) has Florida wildlife officials worried about a Burmese python invasion in the Everglades National Park (www.nps.gov/ever). Now, since the pythons first made travel into the area in 1979, they have found the perfect breeding and feeding grounds and their numbers have grown to at least 300,000 snakes. It’s thought that the Burmese python invasion actually began to get its grip onto the area in 1992 when…

Before Cancun Mexico Became a tourist town and before , the Yucatan Peninsula was inhabited and dominated by Mayan civilizations until most of the local sites were abandoned by the 15th century. For centuries, this region was mostly wetlands, mangroves, jungles, and virgin beaches.The mayan civilians called the area “Kan Kun” meaning den of snakes, golden serpent, and abundant low-lying areas, which later evolved into “Can Cun” by the Spanish. In 1968 when the Mexican government recognized the…

In geography class we have learned so much about so many different and amazing places. The place that I would like to visit the most and really gets my attention is Fiji. To begin with, Fiji has many different flavorful and exotic foods to try. Also, there are many fun and exciting activities for people of all ages to do. Finally, another reason I would like to go to Fiji is because of the tropical climate, and I like being near the beach. As can be seen, there are fun things to do at Fiji…

In today’s society, school curriculums are filled with a variety of topics, from the Math’s to the Sciences, English’s to the Foreign Languages. One of the many items contained in school curriculums includes evolution. Evolution is a highly controversial subject in science that typically starts many debates with differing views on the subject. Some are for the teaching of evolution in public schools while others do not agree with evolution and does not want it taught to their children on the…

An Empty World Imagine a world where humans were extinct. It’s seems far fetched right? Well, that’s a reality for too many species. Extinction rates have been rising because of many factors, including overfishing, overhunting and habitat loss. There have been five mass extinctions in our history, and some scientists say we are on the brink of the sixth one. “In the last five hundred years, 869 species have gone extinct” (Species Extinctions the Facts). There is a critical need to keep…

archeology and written accounts the Calusa depended on fishing, as well as systematic foraging for sustenance. Living among the coastal mangroves of the Florida Gulf Coast, the Calusa utilized the abundance of shells around them to create their built environment. (4) Here we see a direct and perfect example of an indigenous community using the natural mangroves of nature as the carriers of a living area to sustain themselves as they must’ve seen it as nature’s protection as well from bad weather…

unloaded the boat and we set out towards the sea. The first thing we had to do was get bait. We drove to the bait shop, pulled up to the dock and then got some bait. Then we set out to the first fishing spot. The first place we tried was back in the mangroves and we did not have much luck. We just kept casting our lines out there and a fish would steel our bait, without getting hooked. We were not getting anything there so we moved on. With hopeful hearts, we casted out in the second hole but to…

Hurricane Andrew It is August 16, 1992 and a tropical wave is beginning to form off the west coast of Africa. The scene looks safe and not something to worry about until hours and days have passed. Twelve days later, it the 28th of August and the wave has not died off, but has grown into something stronger, something greater, something we today call a category 5 hurricane. This powerful hurricane was given the name Hurricane Andrew. In the Greek language the name Andrew means “strong”…

Personification is used to represent the abstract qualities of war in human form. This device is briefly used in the poem Homecoming. In line fifteen, the writer states, “of earth, the knuckled hills, the mangrove-swamps, the desert emptiness…” The landscape describes human characteristics in regards to the hills. Instead of saying bumpy, he refers to the hills as knuckled because it adds more effect to to the landscape of the earth below them. Also in line…

The climate is warming and will continue to rise under human influence. Signs of climate change are already being seen in today’s environment and the significance of these changes are accepted by most people, however there are still some people who choose to deny these facts. Global warming has the potential to dramatically disrupt some of life’s essential requirements for health, water air and food. In order to plan for climate change policies, and understanding of how Australians perceive…