Encouraging information! Following a devastating document yr of manatee deaths in 2021, a document variety of manatees was counted at Central Florida’s Blue Spring State Park on Sunday. Workers there counted 932 on Sunday, which is almost 200 greater than their earlier document of 736 that was counted on New Yr’s Day this yr.
In 2021, 1,101 manatee deaths have been recorded in Florida, far greater than every other yr on document. The deaths represented virtually 15 % of the state’s complete manatee inhabitants. The manatees died primarily of hunger. For nourishment, manatees rely primarily on sea grass, beds of which have been smothered by pollution together with outbreaks of poisonous algae blooms intensified by local weather change.
In 2022 and 2023, Florida noticed a resurgence of the expansion of sea grass, supported by an emergency manatee feeding program by Florida wildlife officers.
Manatee deaths dropped to 800 in 2022 and 555 in 2023.
