SAVE FLORIDA MANATEES
SAVE FLORIDA MANATEES
The seagrass mitigation bill threatens Florida Manatees. (SB 198 and HB 349) Environmental group says more …
Manatees Get Help with Extra Feeding Manatees, Facing a Crisis: In a first, wildlife officials have decided to provide food …
Saving the manatees — rescue by rescue, rehab by rehab Florida is scrambling to prevent another horrific year of starvation …
Article Courtesy of: Marine Mammal Commission The Florida manatee, a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, is a large, slow-moving marine mammal with an elongated, round body and paddle-shaped flippers and tail. Manatees are herbivores, feeding solely on seagrass, algae and other vegetation in freshwater and estuarine systems in the southeastern United States. Florida manatees […]
Manatees starve to death on Florida coast Article courtesy of FOX 35 Orlando – Associated Press Manatees are starving: Manatees have starved to death by the hundreds along Florida’s east coast because algae blooms and contaminants are killing the seagrass the beloved sea mammals eat, a wildlife official told a House committee Tuesday. Seagrass has […]
Saving the manatees — rescue by rescue, rehab by rehab Florida is scrambling to prevent another horrific year of starvation deaths among the beloved mammals By Lori Rozsa – Article Courtesy of: Washington Post ORLANDO — On an unusually cold winter morning in central Florida, Corleone the manatee was awakened before dawn by wetsuited workers […]
