General and Geographical site information:
Subregion: Northern America
Geographical position: Marine & coastal wetlands
Designation Date: 04-06-1987
Coordinates of site center (degrees): 25°00'N 080°55'W
Coordinates of site center (decimal lat long):25,00 -80,92
Total site area: 566143 hectares
Minimum elevation: -10 meters
Maximum elevation: 5 meters
Transboundary: no
Boundary changes: no
Number of separate units: 1
Administrative region: Florida and Dade,Collier,Monroe
| Information on Conservational Issues:
Restoration status:
Implemented/ing approved site-specific plan/measures
Management plan status:
Implemented/ing approved site-specific plan/measures
International conservation designation:
World Heritage Site
Biosphere Reserve
National conservation designation:
national park
wilderness area
Ramsar dates:
16-06-1993: Date that site was officially placed on the Montreux Record
Ramsar criteria:
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Uses and Threats:
Current land use:
Within the site's surroundings/catchment:
Urban development
Forestry (unspecified)
Agriculture (unspecified)
Within the Ramsar site:
Research
Flood control
Recreation (unspecified)
Recreational/sport fishing
Commercial fishing
Habitat/nature conservation
Threats:
Within the site's surroundings/catchment:
Industrial waste pollution
Fertilizer pollution
Impact from water diversion or extraction
Drainage/reclamation for industry
Drainage/reclamation for urban development
Urban development (unspecified)
Within the Ramsar site:
Unspecified pollution
Reservoir/barrage/dam impact:altered flow regime
Introduction/invasion of exotic plant species
Introduction/invasion of exotic animal species
Social and cultural values:
Non-consumptive recreation
Sport fishing
Conservation education
Land tenure/ownership:
Site's surroundings:
Public land (unspecified)
Private owner(s)
Commoners/customary rights
Within the Ramsar site:
National/federal
Ecological Changes:
Significant/substantial negative changes are occurring
Significant negative changes occurring since designation
| Ecological Data:
Wetland Category:
Inland wetlands
Marine & coastal wetlands
Wetland Type (dominant type in bold):
Seasonal/intermittent freshwater lakes (over 8 ha); includes floodplain lakes (P)
Estuarine waters; permanent water of estuaries and estuarine systems of deltas (F)
Intertidal mud, sand or salt flats (G)
Intertidal marshes; includes salt marshes, salt meadows, saltings, raised salt marshes; includes tidal brackish and freshwater marshes (H)
Intertidal forested wetlands; includes mangrove swamps, nipah swamps and tidal freshwater swamp forests (I)
Coastal brackish/saline lagoons; brackish to saline lagoons with at least one relatively narrow connection to the sea (J)
Permanent shallow marine waters in most cases less than six metres deep at low tide; includes sea bays and straits (A)
Permanent freshwater lakes (over 8 ha); includes large oxbow lakes (O)
Freshwater, tree-dominated wetlands; includes freshwater swamp forest, seasonally flooded forest, wooded swamps; on inorganic soils (Xf)
Permanent saline/brackish/alkaline lakes (Q)
Seasonal/intermittent saline/brackish/alkaline lakes and flats (R
Permanent saline/brackish/alkaline marshes/pools (Sp)
Permanent freshwater marshes/pools; ponds (below 8 ha), marshes and swamps on inorganic soils; with emergent vegetation water-logged for at least most of the growing season (Tp)
Seasonal/intermittent freshwater marshes/pools on inorganic soil; includes sloughs, potholes, seasonally flooded meadows, sedge marshes (Ts)
Non-forested peatlands; includes shrub or open bogs, swamps, fens (U)
Permanent rivers/streams/creeks; includes waterfalls (M)
Biological Values:
Fauna type:
outstanding range of bird species
supports rare/endangered bird species
supports rare/endangered mammal species
aquatic mammals present
Flora type:
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Ramsar report for Everglades
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