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Manatees are still facing die-offs from a lack of seagrass they eat, collisions with boats and red tide. A new facility will help at least some of them survive.
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More than half of Florida manatees rely on power plants to survive. That’s a problem for addressing climate change.
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Manatees were among the first animals listed on the Endangered Species Act in 1973, when their population was estimated at 1,000. Now they’ve come to exemplify both the power of conservation and how tenuous its successes can feel.
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The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission found the body of a manatee people called Asha in the St. Johns River on Jan. 12 after she died of cold stress.
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Nearly 1,000 manatees gathered at Blue Spring State Park on one of the coldest winter days of the season. Here's why the growing number of manatees at the park is encouraging.
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Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend.
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November is Manatee Awareness month. It's especially poignant for Lee County, which leads Florida with more than 100 sea cow deaths so far this year.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it’s considering returning Florida manatees to the endangered species list. The move comes after more than 2,600 manatees died in the past three years. More than half those deaths were blamed on starvation after seagrass wilted in the Indian River lagoon.
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More than 2,000 of the gentle sea cows have died in Florida in the last two years, mainly from algae blooms that smothers the sea grasses they need to survive.
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The Brevard Zoo is breaking ground on a new manatee rehabilitation center after receiving a state grant and individual donations.
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The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida manatees has officially ended for the winter season, as deaths of the marine mammals appear to be slowing despite the long-term threat of pollution to their main food source, seagrass.
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Bianca was a mere calf when she was rescued in 2021 from Florida’s ailing Indian River Lagoon. After a long recovery at SeaWorld she finally swam back into the wild.