While the Everglades are home to hundreds, if not thousands, of unique species of birds, reptiles, fish, mammals, and insects, not every creature that inhabits the area today can say that they’ve always called this area “home.” Some have found there way here accidentally, while others were brought here due to human intervention, and while […]
Restoration ecology is a special field of science, having been first classified in the 1980′s, which has become an integral part of the conservation and restoration efforts in such places as the Florida Everglades. But what is restoration ecology? The official definition of restoration ecology as defined by the Society for Ecological Restoration is the […]
The term “mallard” has often been used to describe any duck that is found in the wild, but is actually an official term used to describe a specific species of duck, the Anas platyrhynchos. While mallards are a type of wild duck, this does not go to say that every duck that is found in […]
Though the Burmese python is arguably the largest and most well-known invasive species in the Everglades, it is actually not the species that poses the greatest threat to the wildlife natives of the area. The biggest threat comes in a much smaller package – the Argentine black and white tegu, a species of lizard that […]
Every visitor to the Everglades will see a few of the usual suspects – alligators, frogs, birds – as well as a few species that are relatively new to the area. Once such species is the Burmese python – a species of snake that was not present in South Florida at all previous to 1979, […]
