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The Florida Everglades is YOUR treasure and it's up to YOU to do your part to make sure it gets taken care of for this and future generations

The first thing you can do is start by giving Water the Love and Respect it deserves!

A great way to Conserve Water and another Direct Action we urge you to take, and one of the big things we advocate for is:
  • STOP planting invasive species and START planting native species! Species that naturally thrive in our area.
  • REINTRODUCE NATIVES in our parks, communities, highways, around our businesses, schools and in our homes.
  • PLANT HOST PLANTS and the butterflies will come… even before you take the plants out of the pots! Without one, the other cannot exist. 
  • PROVIDE NATIVE PLANTS and native animals will return. Enjoy visits by beautiful birds and hummingbirds.

This is a powerful, tangible way to contribute to Everglades Restoration.

We need not get into the magnitude that is the Invasive species problem, but rather let us get into the Solutions 

If we are to preserve and remediate the land, then we all must begin to plant native species and not just here but all around the World.  By doing so we will be providing habitat and food sources for the multitude of wildlife that dearly depend on these plants, for they are inseparable.

Although a bee and a flower may look different they cannot exist without  each other.

If you plant them they will come.  Join us in contributing to the bounce back of the Flora & Fauna.

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Reclaim the Land

We need your help we need folks to pay attention get involved any way you can!
Get back in touch with the Plant Kingdom put the right Plants and Trees back in the ground and more importantly spread the word this is how we make the World beautiful again! 

We urge the Industries, the Cities and Municipalities to update your practices not only are Native plants the sensible, sustainable way to go they save WATER they save
Endangered Species they save Money and more importantly 

ITS THE LAW.

Florida-Friendly Landscaping is the Law!

Below you will find an arsenal of Information on Native Plants, Pollinators, Birds, and the tools you need to begin transforming your Environment.

Love the Everglades Movement has also been working closely with our friends

at Sunkeeper Environmental Solutions
and
at Urban Habitat 

-- creating spaces for these Endangered species to thrive once more.  One of the areas where we need your help is to continue transforming lands and re-create Native habitats -- so we can see the animals return once again. 

Take a walk thru a Restored Native Habitat

Please check out, share and injoy this amazing photo gallery created by Susan Ford Collins capturing Natures return, Highlighting some of Urban Habitats designs.

Go Native! Hazlo Nativo!
A Spanish and English photo guide book to choosing eco-friendly South Florida native plants over commonly found invasive exotics. 



     We find it counter productive that we have hundreds of Nurseries in South Florida and yet we only have a handful of places to get Native Plants as a community we can be doing a lot better job.  The availability just isn't there.  So a big part of the work is to create the Demand and educate Floridians on the great Importance and beauty of Native Species.

Invasive plants and animals have become a threat World wide and re-introducing Native species is a Truth that is applicable across the Globe.

If we in South Florida honesty expect to continue living here then we must spearhead a wave of Native Plant awareness but more so practice! Let us employ the right trees for Remediation and flood control, Let us combat run away pest by bringing back Bio-Diversity,  Let us feed the birds and pollinators and employ them to spread the Native seed and provide habitat once more!

Below you will find many helpful links and resources regarding Native plants also a list of a few Nurseries that have plants available for sale, and you can always contact us here at LTEM and together we can work towards Environmental solutions.

Native Plant Resources
Florida Native Plant society 

Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council
North American Butterfly Association  

Nurseries