The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is pushing to protect the sea cow population by separating ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee ...

Federal wildlife officials this week released a proposal that would continue to classify Florida manatees as a threatened ...

Manatees and sea turtles are vulnerable to cold snaps like the Arctic blasts this month as cold air can drop the temperature ...

Patrick Rose, an aquatic biologist, and executive director of the Save the Manatee Club, joined FOX 35's Garrett Wymer on ...

The first manatee ever rescued in North Carolina was released back into the wild Thursday after spending a few weeks ...

Nearly 2,000 Florida manatees died in 2021 and 2022. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the sea cows’ plight does not ...

Even in parts of rural Sarasota and Manatee counties ... even deadly effects on many species." ...

That’s enough that in 2017 they were reclassified from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. “The manatee was delisted from endangered to threatened a few years ...

Ever since award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla’s first hard-won sightings of African manatees, he has been devoted to protecting the little-known and at-risk aquatic mammals.

African manatees are found between Mauritania and Angola but “it’s a very little studied species, around which many mysteries still remain”, Takoukam Kamla said. Sometimes known as sea cows ...