Indian River Lagoon

The groups say more than half of the manatee deaths were related to starvation in the Indian River Lagoon.

Florida lawmakers included $27 million for manatees in the state budget this session. Environmentalists say more is needed.

The measure is aimed at preventing another record die-off this winter.

Ongoing water quality problems have wiped out more than half of the seagrass in the northern Indian River Lagoon.

The Florida Atlantic University study published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases looked at turtles in the Indian River Lagoon over the last two decades and found pollution weakened their immune systems.

So far this year, 937 manatees have died in Florida, most of them in the Indian River Lagoon. Conservation groups are scrambling to save them during a record die-off.

An unprecedented 937 manatees have died in Florida in 2021, representing 10% of the animal’s population in the state.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is joining with 10 members of the state’s congressional delegation to call for more action on behalf of the state’s ailing manatees.

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that 841 manatee deaths were recorded through July 2 — breaking the previous record of 830 deaths in 2013.

The mammals were removed from the endangered species list in 2017, but algae blooms and overdevelopment have killed 46,000 acres of seagrass, leaving manatees without enough to eat.

There's a new effort to determine why green sea turtles in the Indian River Lagoon are covered with tumors. Nearly half of the green sea turtles in the...

Gov. Rick Scott is calling for $60 million for the Indian River Lagoon and Caloosahatchee River in response to last summer’s toxic algae blooms.