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Hope for Florida’s dwindling manatees as review could restore protections

Since Trump administration removed species from endangered list 20% of entire population has been lost in just two years

The Guardian - US · Oct 24, 2023

800 Florida manatees died in 2022 as starvation lingers — but most survived red tide

For the second year in a row, more Florida manatees died than normal as the species battles a human-caused seagrass famine.

Tribune News Service · Jan 11, 2023

Manatee die-off season looms as trial of feeding them lettuce begins again

When the state’s wildlife department flung the first handful of lettuce to a starving manatee in the Indian River a year ago, it was an act of desperation driven by a catastrophic die-off and violating an environmental golden rule that animal behavior should not be messed with that way.

Orlando Sentinel · Dec 30, 2022