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Wildlife officials bring back feeding program for Florida manatees
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to reclassify the rotund West Indian manatee and subspecies — including the Florida manatee — as endangered, which environmentalists have been calling for in order to ensure more resources to help stop the die-off.
Descending into Florida's underwater caves
The world’s densest collection of freshwater springs is at the center of a slow-motion environmental tragedy.
Photo by Maegan Luckiesh on Unsplash
Florida’s manatees are dying in Indian River Lagoon. Why?
Heads of romaine lettuce might seem like empty calories for starving “sea cows” that weigh 1,000 pounds. But for Florida’s manatees, they’re just what the vet ordered.
Human-caused climate change and pollution devastating Florida ecosystems
Warming waters and pollutants are destroying the habitats of manatees, fish and coral in and around the state of Florida.
Manatees, facing a crisis, will get a bit of help: Extra feeding
In a first, wildlife officials have decided to provide food for the mammals, which have suffered catastrophic losses in Florida waters over the last year.
Manatees, facing a crisis, will get a bi of help: extra feeding
In a first, wildlife officials have decided to provide food for the mammals, which have suffered catastrophic losses over the last year.
Photo by Maegan Luckiesh on Unsplash
What’s causing the worst die-off of manatees? Starvation from Florida ecosystem collapse
Death by starvation is as inhumane as any of the assaults Florida has inflicted on manatees.
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