As Florida’s wilderness shrinks by the day, conservationists around the state, including in Manatee County, are in a race against the clock to protect some remaining pieces from being paved. Conserved ...

Manatee County is using a conservation tax approved by voters in 2020 to buy and protect natural Florida landscapes from development. This collection of stories details the properties that have been ...

For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A. Straw, Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center released 26 rehabilitated wild ...

With summer break just around the corner, Manatee Lagoon is giving families a way to keep kids learning and exploring from home through its returning virtual su ...

Manatees are large, slow‐moving aquatic mammals inhabiting coastal, estuarine and freshwater systems in the Americas and West Africa. Their conservation hinges on understanding habitat dynamics, ...

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PREVENT THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE, BUT ALSO TO GUARD AGAINST A POTENTIAL ALLERGIC REACTION. THE END OF MARCH IS ALSO THE END OF MANATEE SEASON. ACROSS OUR WATERS. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST BROOKE SILVA ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have drawn on a 2024 University of South Florida study to claim that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s. These ...