Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass ...

It’s hard to think of a more defenseless creature than the manatee. The curious marine mammal has no natural enemies — other than man. Unfortunately, men (and women) in Florida are killing ...

The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of ...

TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered Species Act in its regulation of wastewater discharges into ...

There were 150 manatees sighted last year in the Perdido Bay watershed and another 50 in the Pensacola Bay watershed The Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program ask the public to be on the ...

Manatee County commissioners voted 5-1 to end the county’s water fluoridation program on Tuesday. Getty Images Manatee County leaders are bringing the county’s decades-long practice of adding ...

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer pours water on an orphaned manatee calf after it was rescued from Largo Sound in Key Largo Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Shannon and Alex ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies said skeletal remains were found in Manatee County that they believe are a man who went missing in 2024. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said the remains were ...