We found that manatees are eating less seagrass—traditionally their primary food source—and more algae than in decades past. This change occurred along Florida's Atlantic coast during a period ...

“Officials recently resorted to emergency feeding trials to try to keep these animals from starving to death from seagrass declines. Truly protecting the manatees’ home, including their seagrass food ...

Preliminary findings suggest the deaths may be linked to dietary changes caused by depleted seagrass, a key food source for manatees. Neighbor Marybeth Pollock highlighted past efforts to restore ...

Over half of the more than 1,000 manatee deaths in Florida in 2021 were attributable to starvation. The mass die-off is being caused by pollution-fueled algal blooms that have killed thousands of ...

They have also seen other positive signs, like observing mating herds and cow-calf pairs, which means that the manatees are reproducing. They believe this improvement is due to seagrass recovering ...