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Manatees May Be Recent Arrivals To Florida, Study Suggest Despite the chilly start to the year in the Sunshine State, the impacts pale in comparison to the winter of 2009-2010, which brought the ...
"We always look into the future, and there are significant threats to manatees statewide," de Wit said. “It’s looking better now, but you cannot sit back and watch it unfold, because we know it needs management and conservation efforts to protect them." 01/15/2025 00:44 -0500
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 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]
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 ...
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.
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