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This individual inspects a kayak situation. Manatees are large marine mammals that inhabit slow rivers, canals, saltwater bays, estuaries, and coastal areas.They are a migratory species, inhabiting the Florida waters during the winter and moving as far north as Virginia and into the Chesapeake Bay, sometimes seen as far north as Baltimore, Maryland and as far west as Texas in the warmer summer ...
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 ...
Everyone likes manatees. Except, perhaps, for whoever scraped "TRUMP" into a manatee in 2020. Manatee populations have recovered significantly over the last few decades, after hunting and habitat ...
The reality is everyone is at fault, and we need to transcend the politics of culpability that have brought manatees to the brink. That’s why we need an unprecedented, massive effort toward ...
Save the Manatee (SMC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group and membership organization dedicated to the conservation of manatees. [1] The organization was founded in 1981 by singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett, and Governor of Florida (and later U.S. Senator) Bob Graham. [2] There are currently about 40,000 active members of SMC.
The decision was not without controversy, however: According to Save the Manatee Club, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately consider data from 2010 to 2016, during which time manatees suffered from unprecedented mortality events linked to habitat pollution, dependence on artificial warm-water sources, and record deaths from ...
In 2021 and 2022, Florida’s manatee population took a hit as thousands of manatees died of starvation. Manatees were dying in record-breaking numbers. But that trend may be slowing down
Instead of attacking the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission with lawsuits and accusations of failure to protect manatees, the environmental and animal rights groups should be recognizing the state's management efforts which have led to a strong recovery of manatee populations.