The Importance Of The Everglades

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The Everglades is a very important ecosystem, especially in Florida. The Everglades is a valuable place for different organisms to live in. Also it is a reliable source of food and water for people and can protect people from floods and storms.
Many different organisms live in the Everglades as there primary home. It can be from alligators and birds and a huge variety of different plants. According to "Are the Everglades Forever?", it mentions, " the Everglades’ populations of opossums, rabbits, bobcats and foxes." So many different living things in one ecosystem shows how important how important and valuable the Everglades are.
For people that don't care about the numerous amounts of different plants and animals, the Everglades do support

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