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In accordance with the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, an act of Congress designed to list endangered animal species and offer them limited protection, the manatee became one of 78 original species listed as being threatened with extinction. There are currently more than 1300 species on this list. [11]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed downgrading the manatee's status from endangered to threatened in January 2016 after more than 40 years. [47] There is a small population of the subspecies Antillean manatee (T. m. manatus) found in Mexico's Caribbean coastal area. The best estimate for this population is 200-250. [48]
In the 1970s, the West Indian manatee was listed as "endangered" in the United States under the Endangered Species Act, when there were only several hundred left. [12] The decades since have witnessed significant efforts to protect this species from natural and human threats, particularly collisions with watercraft . [ 13 ]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the coming months will round up manatee data and decide whether the West Indian manatee species should be given bolstered ... Will Florida manatees be listed ...
The Endangered Species Act is an important federal law aimed at helping bring imperiled animals back from the brink of extinction. And we absolutely, unequivocally, need manatees to be listed as ...
Manatee protections, and marine and ocean conservation issues in Florida in general, should not be considered political issues. | Opinion Manatees should be listed as an endangered species. Don ...
Caribbean manatees (Trichechus manatus) are a tropical marine mammal threatened from survival throughout their range in the United States (US), Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Central and South America. It is highly endangered in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, mostly by human causes in the form of poaching and watercraft mortality.
Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said Monday in a petition ...