Everglades: Adventures in the jungle Floride

For most people, the Everglades is nothing but a huge swamp full of alligators, populated with hundreds of billions of mosquitoes, CSI Miami where agencies are occasional human cadavers. Well, it is not a swamp but a flooded prairie, marshes have for trees, but the Everglades forests and three islands. It is not stagnant, but has to do with the ocean. There are alligators, but they do not attack only rarely man. The true Everglades is well above the image that we do it in the media. Is an ecosystem grandiose and overwhelming. It is a true celebration of life that is called modern man disguised as a tourist.

Delta swamp is not, nor puddle

The huge expanse of water and vegetation, which covers about 28 490 square kilometers create an unparalleled mosaic of sandbanks, fields flooded grass, clumps of trees and natural channels through the mangrove shores. For thousands of years, this complex ecosystem has evolved into a huge living forming mechanism of biological structure of southern US state of Florida.

Tote with them for the first colinişti Americans arrived, Everglades was nothing more than an area with potential for agriculture. Around 1900 these farmers and developers began work on a drainage system that had a devastating effect on the ecosystem and plant and animal species living here. Fortunately, the American authorities woke up on time, so in 1947, with the help of early ecologists, scientists and other advocates of nature conservation, they said wetland in Everglades, scientific reserve and national park.

Gradually, throughout South Florida he began to be known to Americans as "a giant river of grass flowing imperceptibly the ocean". The exceptional biodiversity of the area has turned it into a sanctuary for a large number of species of birds, reptiles and fish as well as endangered species such as the Manatee. Everglades National Park has obtained Statt Biosphere Reserve in 1976, and three years later was inscribed on the World Heritage List. In 1987 the site was designated Ramsar wetland of international importance that is, two years later other area was enlarged by 222 hectares.

Everglades is today the largest reserve octotită type subropical on the North American Continent. The ecosystem is located at a junction point between temperate and subtropical the US with areas of overlap between fresh and brackish. Here is the largest mangrove ecosystem in the entire Western Hemisphere, the largest toothed grass prairie and the most important nesting place for waterfowl in North America. Everglades ecosystem was originally a vast and sprawling plateau marine was sunk at the end of the last glaciation.

Its limestone layer is one of the latest natural sedimentation agglomerations in the world. Biological processes Compex herein include the associations of algae, the entire food chain locally in the top of which are the major predators such as alligator, crocodile American subspecies of puma Florida and last income, foreign species of python Burmese here by negligence and ignorance of the people.

Original ecological tourism

Unique biodiversity of this place made the Everglades today to reach a genuine sanctuary for a large number of species of plants and animals. In addition, the reserve provides protection for about 20 endangered species, among which, the Florida panther, the kite-eating Emelce d, American alligator, crocodile American and Manatee.

Everglades is a very important place for nesting and migration of birds, ornithologists here a number of Americans identifying over 400 bird species. In total, there live more than 800 species of vertebrates, including 25 species of mammals, 60 reptiles, along with countless species of amphibians and insects. It has been identified 20 species of snakes including indigo snake and endangered species extinction.

Everglades waters are inhabited by 275 species of fish that serve as food for many mammals, reptiles and birds. In each fishing season, thousands of American sport fishermen come here for unforgettable moments. Being strictly protected reserve with all fish caught must be released. Not before being photographed and filmed.

For Turis, Everglades also offers an unexpected surprise and by its past rich in relics and historical evidence. Here, American researchers have identified and studied about 200 archaeological sites. Members of a local Native American tribe called Miccosukee have the right to enter and stay in the reserve oride whenever they want. Also in Everglades can be visited Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas reserve special treatment.

The building is the largest military fort built of brick in the United States is large enough to accommodate a garrison of 1,500 soldiers. Fort Jefferson was not actually inplicat in any battle, although during the American Civil War, had an important role to Union troops deployed in the region. Shortly after the war, the fort played the role of prison.
Everglades is the only place in the world where naturally coexist in a species of crocodile with one alligator.

During the Seminole Wars, the huge expanse of water and plants was an excellent refuge for Seminole and Miccosukee triburuile, which were hidden in mangrove swamps and flood plains prairies. Everglades owns an American record in the nature reserves, said he is the first national park to preserve biodiversity and natural resources, not for landscape or tourist value.
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However, ecological tourism has developed greatly in recent decades. Administration organizes daily tours of the Everglades revervaţie tourists being taken on board the famous boat propeller driven by a large outer air, so typical of this unique and special.