The Florida Everglades

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The Everglades calm, peaceful, and elegant but something terrible is happening to the Everglades. The water for the Everglades it's peaceful calm and clean or at least it was before we got there. When we got there we took their water pumps it into houses with no regard to the wildlife or indigenous flora
The Everglades is slowly dying and getting polluted by us. The Everglades is a very fragile ecosystem,” even the tiniest change can have a large impact” (quote from Past and Present: The Florida Everglades by Toby Haskell ). The Everglades nearly drained when there were the first settlers because they had no regard for natural beauty. The early settlers did not just drain the Everglades they also polluted it; scientific tests showed that the

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