A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 ...

Prolonged exposure to cold water can cause manatees to lose body heat, leading to a potentially fatal condition known as "cold stress." ...

After reviewing scientific and commercial data, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday proposed separate Endangered Species Act listings for two West Indian manatee subspecies.

The bill stipulates that the West Indian manatee will be treated as an endangered species according to the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This means that the manatee will receive legal protection ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal calls for establishing separate listings under the Endangered Species Act for two subspecies of the West Indian manatee, which now is classified as threatened.

So, there is a Florida manatee and an Antillean manatee, and both are subspecies of the overarching West Indian manatee. "The Florida manatee was wrongfully downlisted in 2017 and that didn't take ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced its final rule downlisting the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened in 2017. In 2022, the petition to upgrade their status was filed by The ...

Florida is at the northern end of the West Indian manatee's winter range and these warm-water habitats play an important role in their survival during the winter months. Florida manatees can be ...

The Indian River Lagoon suffered a devastating loss of seagrass, a primary food source for manatees, leading to a record number of manatee deaths in 2021, with many attributed to starvation.

Thousands of manatees have starved to death in the last few years, and that should have been accounted for.” The West Indian manatee, including both the Florida and Puerto Rico subspecies, was ...

After being listed as an endangered species since 1973, the West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, was reclassified from endangered to threatened by the U.S. Fish and ...