seagrass

The ongoing unusual mortality event is prompting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider reclassifying Florida’s state marine mammal as an…

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions…

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Federal wildlife officials will consider whether manatees should be classified as an endangered species, pointing to issues such as a loss of seagrass…

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Before Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start of summer, Florida's water management districts want to remind visitors to springs and rivers to…

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Local volunteers for the Florida Springs Heartland Manatee Sighting Network, a citizen-science program started by the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department in 2022, recently completed a six-month monitoring period to note the presence of manatees in area springs and rivers.