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Protecting the Everglades: Beautiful Everglades - Coot Bay Question and Answer written by a 5th grader - Sharing her view on Importance of Alligator for survival of Everglades Question – What would happen if there were no alligators left in the Everglades? Answer: Snap! Snap! In the one and only Florida Everglades, the sharp sound of an alligator rapidly snapping up its caught prey, is relatively common. One is left to think of what would happen if the beautifully wild everglades lost all of its plentiful reptilian alligators. The answer to that question may just be determinable. First of all, without alligators, many vital habitats would not even exist. They create deep depressions that eventually fill to the brim with a mixture of salt and freshwater to form brackish water. The holes become residences for marine life such as young bonefish and shrimp. Also, there are abundant aquatic animals that are attracted to these holes during the dry season, which lasts fro...

For third year in a row I was Honorary Teacher for a day. I love to teach and train students. I have been teaching and training students at Graduate level in Environmental and Information Technology fields. However when I teach to elementary school kids, I prepare more, get them involved and I feel that I am giving some input for these Kid's future. Teach In - November 2012 Teach In - November 2013 I had been talking about pollution topics in previous years. This year I choose Bio Dome topic and was well received by the fifth graders. I told them in future, humans may live in sustainable bio domes, because of the higher level of pollutants in the environment, which also can be a self sustained sustainable living environment. An imagined  Bio Dome   They got involved immediately and asked lots of very intelligent questions. Each one them designed their own bio dome, More Bio Dome Satellite Designs It is all about Nature and Technology ...

Every time you visit a national park or even a national preserve, you have think of the greats such as John Muir, President Roosevelt and many other visionaries who had saved these lands for us. Every inch of these lands is beauty to watch. When you enter them, it is pristine, you breath the fresh air and have fun in the nature. I can't even think of disturbing these saved land. Now in Florida to save these Lands and Water - we have to vote Yes on 1 - The Water and Land Conservation Amendment.  Voting Yes on this Amendment 1 will give us opportunity to enjoy these preserved lands and water bodies. We should preserve these lands for the future generations to benefit, as we did. If we don't the future generations would have to see these lands only in pictures. I have traveled to different countries and as the years go by, there are only concrete jungles. Green forests, lands and water bodies are degraded everywhere. When you step out, you breathe dust and soot from t...