Pressure group the Blue Planet Society, which campaigns to preserve ocean life, said it was shocking that a "supposedly protected West African manatee can be abused in such a public way".

WWF-West African Marine Ecoregion Programme today signed a new intergovernmental agreement to conserve the West African Manatee and Small Whales in Western Africa and Macaronesia. The conservation ...

Aristide Takoukam Kamla (L), a marine biologist, researcher and conservationist specialising in the African manatee, talks to tourists and other biologists on a boat in Dizangue, on December 10 ...

DIZANGUE, Cameroon — Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees ... still being served up in the village restaurant. Manatee hunting is now outlawed and the dish has vanished ...

Manatees belong to the order Sirenia, which includes the Amazonian, African and West Indian manatee species. While Sirenian fossils have been found globally, only Florida and the Caribbean contain ...

CAMEROON – Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees ... were still being served in the village restaurant. Manatee hunting is now outlawed, and the dish has vanished from ...

Vast floodplains along the river and the river itself are home to threatened species such as the West African manatee, hippopotamus, crocodile and black-crowned crane. Twenty of the river's 250 ...