Everglades Flora & Fauna
Restoring The River of Grass: Today’s Projects Shaping Tomorrow’s Everglades
Restoring the River of Grass: How Today’s Projects Shape Tomorrow’s Everglades When you climb aboard an airboat with Everglades River of Grass Adventures, you’re gliding across one of the most ambitious restoration stories anywhere in the world. From massive reservoirs to the quiet work of backfilling old canals, today’s projects are slowly helping the Everglades…
Read MoreEverglades Invasive Species: Pythons, Iguanas, and Hands-On Conservation
Everglades Invasive Species: Burmese Pythons, Green Iguanas & How Guests Can Help The Florida Everglades is one of the most unique subtropical wetlands on Earth—a maze of sawgrass, tree islands, and winding sloughs filled with wildlife that exists nowhere else. But alongside the alligators, white-tailed deer, wading birds, and turtles, there’s a growing threat: invasive…
Read MoreWhy The Everglades is Known as The River Of Grass
Why the Everglades Is Known as the River of Grass The Everglades is known as the River of Grass because it is, quite literally, a slow‑moving river of shallow freshwater flowing through vast prairies of sawgrass—an ecosystem shaped more by water movement than by dry land or deep channels. Marjory Stoneman Douglas popularized this name…
Read MoreDiscover the American Alligator on the River of Grass
American Alligators in the Florida Everglades The American alligator is one of the most iconic and important species in the Florida Everglades and a powerful symbol of this unique wetland ecosystem. On our Everglades River of Grass Adventures, guests frequently ask about their habitat, behavior, and how such a large reptile fits into the delicate…
Read MoreEverglades River of Grass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The Everglades River of Grass forever changed how we see Florida’s wild heart, thanks to Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s groundbreaking 1947 book that reframed the Everglades from a worthless mucky swamp to a dynamic, flowing river of life. “There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions…
Read MoreThe American Flamingo Returns to The Everglades
American Flamingo Returns to the Everglades: A Heart-Fluttering Sight The American Flamingo returns to the Everglades, capturing hearts and attention across the globe as these iconic birds stage a remarkable comeback to South Florida. Once vanished for over a century due to plume hunting and habitat loss; wild American Flamingos are now spotted in dense…
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