The Trump administration’s government-wide staff cuts threaten federally protected manatees in a Florida national wildlife refuge established for the purpose of safeguarding the beloved sea cows, ...

What You Need To Know The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that they reviewed a petition to reclassify the West Indian Manatee as an endangered species That petition was filed by ...

Community Votes Bring the West Indian Manatee to Life in LG's Endangered Species Awareness Campaign NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 25, 2025 / The latest animal in LG Electronics USA's ...

As part of LG Electronics' commitment to conservation, the company has named the latest animal in its Endangered Species Awareness Series – the West Indian Manatee. A warm-water marine mammal ...

The West Indian manatee on the new stamp is described as a “gentle and vulnerable” marine mammal, inhabiting Florida’s inland waterways and warm areas of the coastal Atlantic, Caribbean and ...

Meanwhile, the shy West Indian manatee calf at the Amazon Flooded Forest has formed a friendship with a young female born in 2023. The two can often be seen grazing together.

Meanwhile, the shy West Indian manatee calf at the Amazon Flooded Forest has formed a friendship with a young female born in 2023. The two can often be seen grazing together.

This bill, titled the Manatee Protection Act of 2025 , aims to officially designate the West Indian manatee (scientific name: Trichechus manatus) as an endangered species.

A record 1,100 Florida manatees died in 2021, most from starvation due to seagrass loss in the Indian River Lagoon. But USFWS had already decided in 2017 to downlist manatees from endangered to ...

October 28: A female manatee (258 cm) in Indian River, Vero Beach, was found too decomposed to determine the cause of death. November 26: A male manatee (297 cm) in the Atlantic Ocean, Sebastian ...

From now until March, hundreds of West Indian manatees will be making their way to the warmer spring waters in and around Crystal River.