manatees

A federal judge rejected a lawsuit to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take another look at water-quality standards.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to publish a proposed rule for 1.9 million acres being designated as critical manatee habitat.

The lawsuit alleges that Florida violated the Endangered Species Act because of sewage discharges that led to manatee deaths.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is blamed for sewage discharges into the Indian River Lagoon that is a key for manatees.

In 2022 the groups asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reclassify manatees from a threatened species to an endangered species.

Listen: Manatees have been flocking to a popular canal in Apollo Beach at record rates. The manatees gather in the clean, warm water discharge canal of a Tampa Electric Power Station. Above the canal is...

Photographer Carlton Ward Jr., who has spent years trying to protect and preserve the Florida Wildlife Corridor, is now turning his conservation efforts on the Gulf of Mexico. Ward, whose images of Florida panthers and...

©2024 The News Service of Florida After seeing a surge of deaths in 2021 and 2022, the number of manatees that died in Florida last year dropped to 556, according to preliminary information posted on...

SWFWMD says the manatees are "a great demonstration of why we recently restored the shoreline around Three Sisters Springs."

There’s a possible leak of water at a Polk County phosphogypsum stack owned by the giant fertilizer company Mosaic.

Medicaid processing issues A state Senate committee met yesterday morning in Tallahassee to discuss Florida’s turbulent Medicaid redetermination process. One key topic on the table was excessively long wait times for Medicaid’s call center.  ...

Federal wildlife officials will consider whether manatees should be classified as an endangered species, pointing to the loss of seagrass.