Invasive_Plants

Invasive Plants Most forms of life on Earth live within a balanced ecosystem and develop a specific equilibrium with their surroundings. However human intervention has disrupted much of the environment on this planet. Pollution, overpopulation and ignorance have dramatically decreased the biodiversity of species (SER). With the rapid decrease in biodiversity, ecosystems are endangered around the world. Due to urban development in Philadelphia specifically, invasive species were introduced to Fairmount Park (FPC). Invasive species threaten biodiversity because they grow aggressively and out-compete all other vegetation in the area (McDowell). In order to sustain the ecosystems of life on Earth, the protection of biodiversity is an essential endeavor. There are many groups around the world that are dealing with the protection of biodiversity. The Natural Lands Restoration and Environmental Education Program is an organization in Philadelphia that is dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of Fairmount Park’s ecosystem (NLREEP). They receive hundreds on volunteers who devote their time and energy to repair the park for the sake of preserving the precious life that exists within it (BIOBLITZ). In order to protect the biodiversity of Fairmount Park, service-learning projects were created (Harper-Lore). The goal of park, fairmount, plants, invasive, species, biodiversity, philadelphia, nlreep, ecosystem, native, within, specific, planet, life, earth, area, animals, project, order, live, forest, around, world, western, vines, ultimately, trees, time, surroundings, state, specifically, soil, side, should, service-learning