Thanks to your generosity, we’ve been able to help our partners at FWC and USFWS to rescue, recover and provision manatees. We asked you to help us answer the call for manatees in December 2021. […]
Brevard County conservationist and restaurateur Laurilee Thompson talked with Space Coast Daily’s Giles Malone at the Desoto Parkway canal about the critical situation facing the manatee population in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. […]
In the last several weeks, FWC and partners successfully released 23 manatees back into the wild after full rehabilitation at critical care facilities. […]
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Manatee Rescue and FWC Law Enforcement, along with partners, came together in an effort to free six entrapped manatees at Pine Island Conservation Area on Merritt island. […]
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is reminding boaters and personal watercraft operators to slow down and keep a keen eye out for manatees as they enjoy Florida’s waterways this spring. […]
In balmy spring weather, both manatees and boaters are cruising through Florida’s waterways. […]
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is devoted to working toward the continued success of manatees in our state. […]
On May 9, a 1,255-pound manatee mother and her young calf were rescued by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) from Tomoka River near Ormond Beach in Volusia County, Fla. […]
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which proposed the change in January, is accepting public comments at 1.usa.gov/1ShdWgY. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. April 7. […]
Over the past two chilly days in Central Florida, four rehabilitated manatees were returned back to Florida water ways by the SeaWorld Animal Rescue Team and the American Humane Association (AHA) Red Star Rescue team. […]
On this chilly morning, four rescued and rehabilitated manatees were returned back to their natural water ways by a large group of Florida’s marine mammal experts, including SeaWorld Animal Rescue Team, Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo and Miami Seaquarium – in a multi-organization effort led by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). […]
Manatees are large, fully aquatic and mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. […]
