Manatee News

FWS Reviewers Should Weigh All of Our Manatee Facts before Downlisting

08/07/2014

I just read a new report from my good friend Dr. Katie Tripp. She is the Save the Manatee Club’s Director of Science and Conservation. Dr. Tripp talks about how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is not looking at all...

USGS Talks About Us Manatees and the Christopher Columbus Discovery!

08/04/2014

Photo Credit by Robert Bonde, USGS I was just checking out a Facebook post by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and found out they were talking about us manatees. Now how cool is that? Here’s what they said: “Here’s Looking at...

SeaWorld Rescues Indian River Manatee

07/23/2014

I SeaWorld Images I just learned that SeaWorld rescued an injured manatee from the Indian River in Port St. John, Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was monitoring the manatee for a few days. They noticed that it was not...

Snooty the Manatee Turns 66!

07/17/2014

Can you believe it? My buddy – Snooty the manatee will be 66 years old on Monday, July 21st! He’ s the oldest manatee on record. Snooty was born on July 21, 1948 at the old Miami Aquarium and Tackle Company. Snooty...

Feds Reviewing Manatee Endangered Status

07/03/2014

I just heard that the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is reviewing the status of us manatees. They may change our status from endangered to threatened. There are two sides of people who are involved with this issue. One side...

Beached Female Manatee Rescued in Ponce Inlet, Florida …

06/27/2014

A female manatee friend of mine was stranded on a beach in Ponce Inlet, Florida. This area is just south of Daytona Beach. It’s not uncommon for this to occur during manatee mating season because we swim in shallow water. The Florida...

My Florida Manatee Buddy – Trapped in a St. Petersburg Spillway!

06/13/2014

I just got the news while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off of Miami that one of my manatee buddies became trapped in a spillway. It happened in St. Petersburg, Florida near 37th street. He was trying to clear the low...

Red Tide: A Manatee Nightmare

05/07/2014

How can it be that insanely small microscopic algae called Karenia brevis, known as red tide, has the ability to kill hundreds of large majestic manatees in a very short period of time? It’s because of the deadly toxin they produce which...