Everglades National Park is the largest designated subtropical wilderness reserves in the North American continent. Point on the interface America and sub-tropical, freshwater and brackish, shallow bays and deeper coastal waters create a complex habitat that supports a high diversity of flora and fauna. It contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere, stand Sawgrass prairies largest and most significant breeding ground for wading birds in North America.Criteria(Viii) the Everglades is, broad almost flat, which drowned the seabed at the end of the last Ice Age. Lime substrate is one of the most active areas of modern carbonate sedimentation.(Ix) Everglades contains vast subtropical wetland ecosystems and coastal / marine including freshwater marshes, where the tropical hardwood hammock, pine rocklands, extensive mangrove forests, saltwater marshes, and seagrass ecosystems is important for commercial fisheries and recreational. Complex biological processes ranging from basic algal associations through higher species and eventually to the major predators such as crocodiles, alligators, and Florida panther; food chain amazingly clear and unbroken.Mixed species of subtropical and temperate wildlife found nowhere else in the United States.(X) Everglades National Park is an important example of a biological process that layak.Berbagai tremendous water habitats has made it a sanctuary for a large number of birds and reptiles and provides refuge for more than 20 rare, endangered and threatened species. These include the Florida panther, snail kite, crocodile, crocodile, and manatee. It provides important habitat for foraging and breeding ground for more than 400 species of birds, including the most significant breeding ground for wading birds in North America and is a major corridor for migration.Description
Everglades National Park is located at the southern tip of peninsular Florida. The park is bounded by the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Tamiami Trail and the ground state mainly to the north and the Florida Keys to the south and south-east. This includes most of Florida Bay. Biosphere reserves include the Dry Tortugas National Park, a group of seven coral reefs and the surrounding herd, coral reefs and waters.Everglades National Park is a shallow basin sloping to the south-west and underlain by extensive Pleistocene limestone with oolitic and bryozoan facies. Park serves as an important area to recharge the Biscayne Aquifer, the main source of fresh water for Miami and southeast Florida. It lies at the interface between temperate and subtropical America and between freshwater and brackish, shallow bays and deeper coastal waters, thus creating a complex habitat that supports a high diversity of flora and fauna. Areas of transition from freshwater (glades) to saltwater (mangrove) is a highly productive zone that incubates a large number of economically valuable crustaceans. Vegetation and flora of southern Florida has fascinated scientists and naturalists since their discovery and is the main reason for the formation of the park. One cause of this attraction is the presence of a high percentage of species of the West Indies. An important feature is the rather high level of endemism lokal.Hammock or tree islands dominated by the proximity of the two types of wood from tropical and subtropical regions. Mangrove trees are the most important thing is, taxa, slash pine and cypress. Grassland can be dominated by Sawgrass, muhley grass, or cordgrass in coastal areas.Everglades protects 800 species of vertebrate land and water, including more than 14 species are endangered, and 25 mammals, more than 400 species of birds, 60 species of known reptiles, amphibians and insects, including two species of swallowtail butterflies are threatened. More than 20 species of snakes have been recorded, including the threatened indigo snake. More than 275 species of fish known from the Everglades, most inhabit marine and estuarine waters. Some species are important game species that attract thousands of anglers to the park. During the fall of the procession continued to singers and other migrants flying over or resting on the islands.The park is rich in both prehistoric and historical heritage: it contains 200 known archaeological sites. A group of Native Americans, Miccosukee tribe of Florida, has a special use permit area within the park. Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park at, is the biggest brick fortress in America. It is large enough to garrison 1,500 men, but never engaged in combat, although it did secure the post for Union troops during the Civil War and later served as a prison. The northern boundary of the park is maintained by the Miccosukee Indians under special use permit for community development.Sources: UNESCO / CLT / WHC
Declared a national park on December 6, 1947 in May 1934 under an Act of Congress.The park was accepted as a biosphere reserve in 1976, written on the World Heritage List in 1979, and designated a Ramsar site (Wetland International Significance) in 1987. The total area of national parks increase in 1989 from its original size of 566, 788ha for the current size.Sources: Evaluation Advisory Body
