manatee deaths

Scientists say a chemical commonly used to kill weeds is increasingly being found in the blood of Florida's threatened manatees. The concentration of glyphosate detected in their systems has increased from 2009 to 2019.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission expert told state senators Monday the immediate crisis could be winding down.

In 2020, the state of Florida recorded a total of 637 manatee deaths, and in 2019, 607.According to the preliminary manatee mortality report on FWC’s website, cold stress has accounted for 27 of the 539 deaths so far this year, which we are only three months into. In 2020, there were 52 cold stress deaths for the entire year.

The 400 manatees that have died is about triple the normal number.

Central Florida Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy is calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate a sharp spike in manatee deaths in the Indian River Lagoon.

Florida has had 432 manatees deaths in 2021, a rate that is alarming experts who say human development and contaminated waterways have caused sea grass feeding areas in South Florida to die off.

The manatees are dying in the Indian River Lagoon.

A preliminary state tally for 2020 found 619 manatees were killed, up from last year and the second highest number in the last five years.

State wildlife officials say fewer manatees died in 2019 in Florida compared with the year before.Statewide, manatee deaths decreased to 606 deaths last…

Florida’s woeful water conditions may be driving manatees into new, more hazardous territory. In 2019, the number of manatees killed by boats reached a...

A manatee famous for traveling as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has died after being hit by a boat back home in the Florida Keys.The Save the…

Wildlife officials say 520 manatees died in Florida last year, including a record 104 killed by boat strikes.