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Everglades National Park
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Everglades National Park is a United States national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida, established on December 6, 1947. It is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest designated subtropical wilderness on the North American continent, protecting a mosaic of sawgrass marsh, mangrove forest and coastal estuary that shelters the Florida panther, the American alligator and the American crocodile side by side. The park carries a rare triple international designation: a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, an International Biosphere Reserve since 1976, and a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention since 1987.
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