The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff found a small female manatee with severe cold stress in a ditch ...

Watercraft manatee deaths were up in 2024 as 96 sea cows were hit and killed by vessels in the Sunshine State. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, is reporting that 565 ...

A manatee was spotted in a Pompano Beach waterway with a bike tire stuck around its torso on Dec. 27, but it swam away before Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists could ...

dropping coastal temperatures and causing the Sunshine State's manatee population, still recovering from a mass starvation event several years ago, to seek warmer waters. Dozens of the sea cows ...

RECORD LOWS DURING BIDEN’S TERM. WELL, IT IS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, WHERE COLD FRONTS DROP OUR TEMPERATURES DRASTICALLY FOR A FEW DAYS. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST BROOKE ...

We’re talking, of course, about manatees. And if you love those chunky “sea cows,” you’re in luck: Now’s the best time to see them up-close in their natural habitat. The aquatic ...

If residents see an injured, distressed, sick, or dead manatee, they are asked to report it to the FWC’s Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-3922. Sea turtles can become cold-stunned when the ...

Thus, the sea cows headed over to the warm—and crucially, clean—water discharge from the power plant. “Manatees are such a special species that we have in our waters here in Florida ...

Start here ORLANDO, Fla. – From boat strikes to seagrass loss, Florida manatees are facing existential threats this decade, however, conditions for the gentle sea cow are likely more favorable ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. -- Dauphin Island Sea Lab and several partner agencies rescued a stranded manatee on New Year's Day from the Magnolia River. A resident first spotted the manatee in the ...