The Amazonian manatee is classed as ‘vulnerable’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and is protected under Brazilian law. Scientists aren’t sure how many ...

Environmentalists hope that by engaging local communities, Bacuri and others like him will be spared. The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close.

Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces for air, some of them exchange wide smiles.

- May 2, 2025 CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool.

The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close. The reasons for this are twofold: The manatee has acute hearing and will vanish into the murky water ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces ...

The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close. The reasons for this are twofold: The manatee has acute hearing and will vanish into the murky water ...

Amazonian manatees—the smallest, at eight to nine feet long and weighing between 650 and a thousand pounds—are the only ones that live entirely in fresh water, in rivers darkened by sediment ...

The Amazonian manatee, named “Airuwe” by his caretakers, was only a few months old when he became tangled in a net and injured near the tiny village of Puerto Narino in the Colombian Amazon in ...

Young Amazonian Manatee Returned To Wild. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 3, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2002 / 03 / 020311080515.htm Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.