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Manatee Milestone: How ZooTampa Broke Records With 26 Wild Releases in 2025

For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A.
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New Bill: Representative Vern Buchanan introduces H.R. 135: Manatee Protection Act of 2025

The bill stipulates that the West Indian manatee will be treated as an endangered species according to the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This means that the manatee will receive legal protection ...
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Wildlife's legal champion

When the West Indian manatee first earned endangered species protection in the early 1970s, the gentle and sociable marine mammals were critically close to extinction, with only a few hundred of the ...
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Preliminary assessment of habitat protection needs for West Indian manatees on the east coast of Florida and Georgia / report of the Marine Mammal Commission in consultation ...

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