Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Everglades National Park' has mentioned 'Ecosystem' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Most national parks preserve unique geographic features; Everglades National Park was the first created to protect a fragile ecosystem. | WIKI |
| [7] The park is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America and contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere. | WIKI |
| Freshwater sloughs are perhaps the most common ecosystem associated with Everglades National Park. | WIKI |
| Sawgrass growing to a height of 6 feet (1.8xc2xa0m) or more, and broad-leafed marsh plants, are so prominent in this region that they gave the Everglades its nickname "River of Grass", cemented in the public imagination in the title for Marjory Stoneman Douglas's book (1947), which culminated years of her advocacy for considering the Everglades ecosystem as more than a "swamp". | WIKI |
| Trees in this ecosystem grow in solution holes, where the soft limestone has worn away and filled with soil, allowing plants to take hold. | WIKI |
| Sharks, stingrays, and barracudas also live in this ecosystem. | WIKI |
| The first canals built in the Everglades did little harm to the ecosystem, as they were unable to drain much of it. | WIKI |
| President George H. W. Bush signed the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act on December 13, 1989, that added 109,506 acres (171.1xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi; 443.2xc2xa0km2) to the eastern side of the park, closed the park to airboats, directed the Department of the Army to restore water to improve the ecosystems within Everglades National Park, and "Direct(ed) the Secretary of the Interior to manage the Park in order to maintain the natural abundance, diversity, and ecological integrity of native plants and animals, as well as the behavior of native animals, as part of their ecosystem. | WIKI |
| In 2000, Congress approved the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a federal effort to restore the Everglades with the objectives of "restoration, preservation and protection of the south Florida ecosystem while providing for other water-related needs of the region",[88] and claiming to be the largest environmental restoration in history. | WIKI |
| Such storms are a natural part of the park's ecosystem; 1960's Hurricane Donna left nothing in the mangroves but "standing dead snags" several miles wide, but 30xc2xa0years later the area had completely recovered. | WIKI |
| The experts who compiled the results justified the score by stating: "Encroachment by housing and retail development has thrown the precious ecosystem into a tailspin, and if humankind doesn't back off, there will be nothing left of one of this country's most amazing treasures". | WIKI |
| It contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere, the largest continuous stand of sawgrass prairie and the most significant breeding ground for wading birds in North America. | UNESCO |
| While the park contains just 20 percent of the original Everglades ecosystem, it is a good representation of the range of original habitats. | UNESCO |
| Water management manipulations have been recognized as the largest environmental threat to the park and the larger Everglades ecosystem. | UNESCO |
| Although hurricanes are a natural phenomenon in the region, intense or frequent storms can damage the already strained ecosystem. | UNESCO |
| The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force formally coordinates the ecosystem restoration related programs of all of these agencies. | UNESCO |
| Management actions primarily involve the implementation of flow restoration and water quality improvement projects to be constructed in the upstream basins, and focus on re-establishment of flow in the central part of the ecosystem, including the park. | UNESCO |