Everglades National Park is a vast green area in South Florida, made up of about 1.5 million acres of wetlands, boasting a wide variety of unparalleled landscapes, and providing an important habitat for many rare and endangered animal species, such as the manatee and the crocodile. The park is an international treasure, a world heritage site, an international biosphere reserve, a wetland of international importance and a specially protected area under the Treaty of Cartagena.