The Endangered And Threatened In The Florida Everglades
- Meera Naveen
- Apr 15, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 24, 2024
From the Florida Panther to the manatee, there are many endangered species that live in only specific areas. One of these is the Everglades, Florida.
Here's a list of some endangered species:
The iconic Florida Panther (which is on the first picture of this page). Although this is the state animal of Florida, people rarely see this beautiful and unique species because of its scarce population. Today, although conditions improved from back in the 70's, where there was only about 20 - 30 panthers left, there are now only over 200, and we have to keep that restoration going if we want to see them still.
The West Indian Manatee. This is not as concerning, but still a vulnerable species, since its population is decreasing. This is also because of their low reproduction rates.
Loggerhead Turtle. This species, although located on a lot of places, are still known as endangered, and recent trends indicate that their population might be decreasing.
Why are these species endangered? Well, it's because of many reasons.
These include hunting in the 1800s and 1900s, threats of digesting mercury, habitat loss, degradation, bycatch, pollution, climate change, etc.
But don't think that no one is doing anything to stop this. In fact, there are many conservation and restoration groups out there monitoring endangered populations and making sure everything meets these species' necessities. Others do it through using genetics. Either way, it was through this that there are now over a hundred panthers in the wild, so we can't feel depressed about it. There's still hope.
But especially if you're an animal lover and want to save these or other species from other places from going extinct, it's better that we all take a step to the solution, the right direction, and stop polluting, stop wasting, and overall, try to be as eco - friendly as possible, which is the simplest step that I recommend everyone should do.
One step at a time, from deciding to recycle to conserving ecosystems, we can revolutionize this world and help restore many amazing, beautiful, rare populations.
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