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A drop in coastal water temperatures in Florida due to a recent polar vortex has caused manatees to search for warmer waters. A polar vortex event in Florida may result from climate change, which ...
A recent Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimate put the population of manatees in the Sunshine State between 8,350 and 11,730, a figure that has been on the decline for the ...
Over the past two years, we’ve lost 26% of Florida’s manatee population. They are starving to death because the seagrass they eat is being killed by harmful algal blooms and poor water quality.
The range-wide minimum known population is estimated to be at least 13,000 manatees, with more than 6,300 in Florida. When aerial surveys began in 1991, there were only an estimated 1,267 manatees in Florida, meaning that the last 25 years has seen a 400 percent increase in the species population in that state. [13] [14]
Around 1,100 manatees died in Florida in 2021, the highest number since the earliest available data in the 1970s. Now wildlife officials are taking a step they never have tried before to try to ...
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 ...
Manatees migrate to warmer spring water during the colder weather in Florida, [4] and often return to the same spring every year. Manatees are identified by their scar patterns, which they acquire mainly from boat strikes, but also from fishing-line entanglements, cold lesions, and fungal infections . [ 5 ]
Environmental groups have sued the federal government to halt pollutants that kill seagrasses and manatees. Florida and the EPA should fix the crisis. Save the seagrass, lagoons and manatees