The North American east coast, including Florida, is home to West Indian manatee ... downlisted manatees from "endangered" to "threatened" in 2017. Major threats to manatee populations include ...

González García, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that reclassifying the West Indian manatee from threatened to endangered may be warranted. Today’s decision, known as a 90-day ...

The Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1983 to protect the Florida manatee, a subspecies of the West ...

After reviewing scientific and commercial data, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday proposed separate Endangered Species Act listings for two West Indian manatee subspecies.

The Florida manatee is a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, one of the first creatures listed as endangered when the federal Endangered Species Act was enacted in 1973. In the mid-1970s ...

It looks like federal regulators are rebuffing an effort to get the Florida manatee back on the endangered species list. Several statewide environmental groups had petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...

“Therefore, we find that the petition presents substantial information that the petitioned action, reclassifying the West Indian manatee as endangered, may be warranted and we will commence a ...

Boats are killing and injuring this endangered manatee subspecies at an alarming rate, a study has found. The creature is one of two subspecies of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus ...

Manatees are often involved in collisions with watercraft, leaving them with injuries and scars. (Courtesy of Save the Manatee Club) The ongoing unusual mortality event is prompting the U.S. Fish ...

"Therefore, we find that the petition presents substantial information that the petitioned action, reclassifying the West Indian manatee as endangered, may be warranted and we will commence a ...