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About The Anhinga
Roost - The Message
The survival of Florida's endangered and threatened species
depends primarily upon the survival of their habitat, the
place where these unique plants and animals live and reproduce.
In Florida, many of those places are the
wetlands and fragile aquatic ecosystem, whose functions
have been overlooked. Rapid urban expansion, drainage,
river channelization, dredging and filling of mangroves,
swamps and marshes, water control structures, dams, canals
and various other alterations by man of the natural water
systems, have all contributed to the near disappearance
of some of Florida's most valuable residents:
the dusky seaside sparrow, Everglade kite, bald eagle, Florida sandhill crane, crocodile, manatee, key deer, Florida panther, sea oats, sea turtles and numerous other endangered and threatened species.
All are renewable living resources. Each species contains a unique gene pool of life... genetics that only), biosphere and wilderness can define and orchestrate, but man can easily destroy.
It is not only possible to save some of these species from extinction but crucial to the health of human inhabitants of the state, because we share the same environment. Polluted air and water may take the eagle first, but man will soon follow.
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