Invasive animals offset the balance of an ecosystem. For Florida, this is no small consequence.
Pedro Ramos, superintendent of the Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks, reported that roughly 80% of its mammal population has disappeared due to invasive interference.
Introducing invasive species to an environment in which they have no natural predators caused irreparable damage to these ecosystems. In Cape Coral, Nile Monitors one of the 16 prohibited species prey on the states’ threatened species such as burrowing owls and gopher tortoises. The ground-nesting wildlife is just one of many that suffer the consequences of these invasive populations.
Bennett expressed her support for the approval of the rules.
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Picayune Strand restoration efforts moving forward with road removal, canal plugging Karl Schneider, Naples Daily News
Here s what restoration of the Florida Everglades looks like
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A thick cloud of dust followed a convoy of water managers and engineers along the gridded gravel roads Tuesday morning in a soon-to-be restored ecosystem in Collier County.
The roads, once concrete, have been torn up and partially degraded in the Picayune Strand State Forest, south of Golden Gates Estates.
The area now marks a joint ecosystem restoration effort between the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, potentially one of the first to reach the finish line in an ambitious Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. The project will finish up in 2024.