47. "Everglades National Park" - FLORIDA

Well I have found again and this time will welcome in one of the most beautiful places on our planet in the Everglades National Park Florida.

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From love to see new places, wildlife and unprecedented moment unprecedented in other places, but in love crazy when I was born a dwarf and admired in "Piedone alien" these are airboat's wonderful, crazy love to have an affair with these boats, adventure too can not be shown in words the feeling we had when we stopped at those speeds about maricele with floating - flying over water and vegetation, we I stopped to admire the calm with which alligators were sitting in the shade in any more or less 1metru - 2 meters from the boat.

We made ​​a great pleasure to be part of the fish of the million visitors a year to park and enjoy this tropical paradise to see the great wonders of Nature. Even if I did not come here to admire the very deep canyons and sheer cliffs that pierce the sky, against which to stay froze, no great waterfalls that shoot them in awe of their elegance, or lei, deer, bison and bears on its I admire the distance, or engineering masterpieces of the great cities, however, I came in Everglades National Park, located in Florida, the park is the world's first national park, founded on abundance rather than its importance for biological breathtaking landscapes.

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Because the part is a semiarid grassland and the remaining tropical swamp, Everglades park was named a "green river".
Some people park their life for centuries following its normal course. Alligators with a length of about 3 meters are lounging in the sun in a moist heat, with an eye to eye next prey or huge turtles that make their way painfully through the grass in search of food.

Here, as in Delta find a huge variety of birds.

But above all water is the very soul of Everglades Park, without it, Glades would cease to exist.

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In the first decades of this century, before the Everglades to be so grossly damaged man, this sea of green far 80 kilometers from east to west and covers a distance of 500 miles from Kissimmee River to Florida Bay . Aeromotor boats cross the shallow water area with grass and golden, with speeds your stomach turn, giving us tourists wind whipped one of the most exciting experiences of our lives.

Besides the beautiful story he gives these beautiful places and we enjoyed our visit, as we know in part but we were not allowed in less selfish to remember in those moments, there is a much least happy of these places just as there are in the Danube Delta in Romania some sadness: The fear that very soon we will not be able to enjoy these wonders of the world, and to highlight and the less pleasant part of reality but also with conviction clear that we sensitize people to understand that we have an enormous debt, namely the duty not to destroy what the Good Lord gave us free to ask for any price, the duty to preserve for posterity and not a duty to develop improve quality and ecosystem of this beautiful planet, I will relate a few things we've learned from talks with our guides.

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Backup and restore the Everglades region will be the boldest and most expensive recovery plan in history.

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Although in 1947 a part of Everglades National Park was declared, drainage and water diversion has continued at a devastating rate. Ecologists believe that draining the Everglades region, which have spent millions of dollars, was a huge mistake. Few have realized that diverting the water flow will have a devastating impact on life in the Everglades. Only after decades of damage became apparent. In the mid-'80s, however, ecologists and biologists have sounded the alarm by announcing that the Everglades is dying. It seemed that every living soul wailing and crying for help. Pools of water where alligators lived began to dry up during droughts. When the rains came and flooded some areas, nests and eggs were taken from the waters. Today, their number is reduced drastically. According to reports, alligators eat their young. Exotic waterfowl in the area, which once numbered over one million copies, thousands fell, dropping 90 percent. Populations of all other vertebrates, from deer to turtles declined by 75 to 95 percent advised a biologist. With constant and rapid progress of agriculture and other human activities have appeared pollutants coming from the leakage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that have contaminated water and soil gradually. Were found large quantities of mercury at all levels of the food chain, from fish in swamps and ending with raccoons, alligators and turtles. Fishermen are advised not to eat perch and catfish in certain waters where mercury has infiltrated the soil. Panthers were also victims of human invasion, killing not only mercury poisoning, but also by poachers. This animal is so endangered that it is believed that the park there are 10 copies in the entire state and the number is less than 30. Several plants that grow only in the Everglades are also on the brink of extinction.

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Some observers believe that the Everglades ecology has reached the point of no longer return. Park officials and government officials, and many ecologists think that if state and federal organizations will allocate funds and will take swift action, the Everglades will be saved. Biologist John Ogden acknowledges that there is little chance of recovering Everglades region, but he is optimistic. "I must be, he said. The alternative is a biological desert, with the remains of a park a few alligators in part, with some nests of other birds and a beautiful museum with stuffed panther in the middle. Very sad.

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