For decades, Walt Disney World has cared for thousands of fish and marine mammals to help with conservation and research. As ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

Floridians love manatees. The marine animals, lovingly known as "sea cows" or "gentle giants," spend the winters swimming in rivers, bays, canals, estuaries and coastal areas from Nov. 15 to March 31.

Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

The service will continue to ferry tourists and residents from a stop on the Manatee River in Bradenton to the ... called me and said the state of Florida contacted us, and since Manatee County ...

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

A manatee rescued from the Tar River in November has been medically cleared and released back into a state and federally designated manatee sanctuary in Florida after months of recovery, the North ...

Commissioners also recently voted to undo a Comprehensive Plan change made in 2021 that allowed new housing construction east ...

Some Manatee County commissioners called for a building moratorium over roads and other concerns in east Manatee.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, a manatee found in the Tar River in November was released ... viewing center in Apollo Beach, Florida. They decided to release her near Tampa ...

Manatees come up for air at Manatee Park off of ... in the Gulf of Mexico and along Florida’s coast. But during the winter, they use the Caloosahatchee River and other waterways to venture ...

Communities in Florida and elsewhere in the country have been confronting ... Sarasota County uses a mix of its groundwater and water purchased from Manatee County and the Peace River Manasota ...