page_title: Environmental issues in Florida
section_title: Everglades
hierarchical_section_title: Environmental issues in Florida / Everglades
caption_attribution_description: This is a map showing the location of the Everglades. The yellow line encloses ecoregions as delineated by the World Wide Fund for Nature: the "Everglades" (NT0904) and the "South Florida rocklands" (NT0164). I, Pfly, made it using NASA Blue Marble imagery and ecoregion GIS data which I simplified and digitized in Photoshop.
context_page_description: There are a number of environmental issues in Florida. A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem, with large wetlands in the Everglades. Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the development of multiple parts of the economy of Florida, including the influential agricultural industry. This biodiversity leaves much of Florida's ecological ecosystem vulnerable to invasive species and human sources of industrial pollution and waste.
  Moreover, because of Florida's low geography, Florida has been described as "ground zero" in the United States for the impacts of climate change in the United States.
context_section_description: The Everglades are tropical wetlands located in the southern portion of Florida that have been designated under the Ramsar Convention as one of only three wetland areas of global importance. A restoration of the Everglades is being carried out with a $7.8 billion, 30-year project aimed at its preservation and restoration.
caption: The Everglades ecoregion, highlighted in a satellite photograph
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