Where Are the Everglades?

Journey into the EvergladesΓÇöa national park in Florida home to hundreds of species of animals from crocodiles to manateesΓÇöin this illustrated book for young readers! From the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series comes Where Is?,a series that tells the stories of world-famous landmarks and natural wondersfeaturing a fold-out map! Long before the Everglades became one of the largest wetlands in the world and a national parkit was covered by a warmshallow sea. Across millions of yearssea levels droppedthe land below surfacedand the area transformed into a thriving environment for unique plants and animals like mangrove forests and the Florida panther. By the mid-1800smost of the Indigenous people living in the Everglades had been killed or forced off the land. By 1900Florida had become the nation’s twenty-seventh state and had begun draining the Everglades to create land for farms and cities. With the loss of so much of the wetlandsnative plants and animals began to die off. Although the Everglades is protected todayit still faces several challengesincluding pollution and rising sea levels. The Evergladesoften called the \