The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state?
Friends of the Everglades of Appeals Friends of the Everglades Friends of the Everglades is a conservationist and activist organization in the United States whose mission is to "preserve, protect, and restore the only Everglades in the world." The book "Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment" refers to Friends of the Everglades as an organization that has fought to preserve North America's only subtropical wetland. The organization was created in 1969-1970 by journalist, author, and environmental activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas who wrote the book in 1947, about the Florida Everglades. When the organization was first founded, it soon had 500 members, eventually reaching 6,000
Restoration of the Everglades more land for public use than any other state. In 1972 President Richard Nixon declared the Big Cypress Swamp—the intended location for the Miami jetport in 1969—to be federally protected. Big Cypress National Preserve was established in 1974, and Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve was created the same year. In 1976, Everglades National Park was declared an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, which also listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979. The Ramsar Convention designated the Everglades a Wetland of International Importance in 1987. Only three locations on earth which have appeared on all three lists: Everglades National