The Everglades In Danger

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Is the Everglades in Danger?
The last thought on someone's mind when it comes to protecting the environment is focused on swampy, marshy, or boggy habitats. To many people, it's simply seen as a center of disease, pests, heat, and odor. With the little to no thought people put into helping our planets maintenance, environments like the Everglades face a lot of danger. The view on the mind of many individuals on this topic changed overtime, but even now people disregard the topic. Today, the still existing large wetland areas in America are protected and maintained by the government. All areas restricted and protected by our government have their safety insured. Or do they?
Humans have benefited from the Everglades for the past 3 decades,
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It gives us clean water supply to drink, bathe in, and for the agriculture of Florida to continue to flourish. If the Everglades deals damage, so does humans. Right now, the Everglades is dealing damage. The ecosystem is getting the harsh consequences of people's disregard, and that karma is going to strike back at us. To start at the beginning of all of this, these are the important aspects that make up the Everglades. Firstly, it has a food web. A food web is the predator-prey relationships of the animals that inhabit an area. It consists of producers, decomposers, and consumers. A producer would be a plant, which gets it's food off of the sunlight. Many, tinier animals and insects get their food by eating plants. In turn, they act as the food of an animal bigger than them, and so on. A mouse eats berries, while it's eaten by snakes, while the snakes are eaten by hawks. A decomposer is a creature that breaks down dead animals into the ecosystem, which the broken down particles act as fertilizers …show more content…
These animals I'm referring to are snakes. To be specific, Pythons and Anacondas. Pet owners released them into the wild for many different reasons, but the most common one is the ones who where no ready to take care of these large animals. They get up to twenty feet, three times as much as a full grown man. Because of their size, they do no have many predators, so the number of their population is spiking. Which is not good for their predators, or their prey. Which is also not good for some of the producers. The snakes fight, or sometimes even eat the alligators for food. This harmed the population of opossums, bobcats, rabbits, and foxes. Successfully dominating, and ruining the food web.It's a trumped web, if it even really can be called a web anymore. Not only are snakes harming the Everglades, their unrelated and invasive plant friend is also causing some damage. They are choking out the native species, and growing so thick they block out the water flow and movement of animals. An effective butterfly effect.
So, is there a way to start reversing the damage? There is certainly still hope for the Everglades. Every creature has a survival instinct, and evolves to their new environments. Sure, it might be easier for some plants or animals than others. But, most any creature can bounce back from hard situations.