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Alligator Apple Tree and Alligator Annona glabra
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Alligator Apple Tree and Alligator! Annona glabra. The Real Everglades • Everglades National Park small private airboat tour. • this is from my dad's small yellow airboat, Miami-Dade County, west of Homestead • Annona glabra is a tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the Soursop and Cherimoya. Common names include pond apple, alligator apple (so called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp apple, corkwood, bobwood, and monkey apple. The tree is native to Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and West Africa. It is common in the Everglades. The A. glabra tree is considered an invasive species in Sri Lanka and Australia. It grows in swamps, is tolerant of saltwater, and cannot grow in dry soil. • Enjoy while we have it, because we are destroying the ecosystem. • Thirty-six federally protected animals live in the park, some of which face grave threats to their survival. • In the United States, the American crocodile's only habitat is within South Florida. They were once overhunted for their hides. They are protected today from hunting but are still threatened by habitat destruction and injury from vehicle collisions when crossing roads to reach waterways. About 2,000 crocodiles live in Florida, and there are roughly 100 nests in the Everglades and Biscayne National Parks. Crocodiles populations in South Florida have increased as has the number of alligators. Crocodiles were reclassified from endangered to threatened in the United States in 2007. • Alligator Apple Tree and Alligator! Annona glabra • The Real Everglades • The Florida panther is one of the most endangered mammals on earth. About 230 live in the wild, primarily in the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp. The biggest threats to the panther include habitat destruction from human development, vehicle collisions, inbreeding due to their limited gene pool, parasites, diseases, and mercury poisoning. • Alligator Apple Tree and Alligator! Annona glabra • The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) listed eight Reptiles of Concern , including the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus), focusing on them for their large sizes and aggressive natures, allowing licensed hunters to kill any listed animals in protected areas and sell their meat and hides. Burmese pythons, two subspecies of African rock pythons (Python sebae; northern and southern), and yellow anacondas (Eunectes notaeus) were banned from import into the U.S. in 2012. United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the inclusion of these reptiles at Everglades National Park. Exotic species control falls under the management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has been compiling and disseminating information about invasive species since 1994. Control of invasive species costs $500 million per year, but 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km2) of land in South Florida remains infested • • Everglades National Park small private airboat tour. • Enjoy The Real Everglades • Taken from a thick patch in the middle of the swamp on an airboat. • This is THE REAL EVERGLADES • Alligator Apple Tree and Alligator! Annona glabra • #therealeverglades
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