Many of Florida’s most important waterways are dying
By Robert Knight, Florida Springs Institute Florida is the Land of a Thousand Springs. Beautiful and healthy springs are among Florida’s ...
Tag: Indian River Lagoon
Save the seagrass, save the lagoon and save the manatees
By Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board Over the past 16 months, the people fighting to save Florida’s gentle, beloved manatees have ...
Ditch the manatee feeding program – focus on lagoon recovery instead
By Julia Cline Ever since I was a child, I’ve loved visiting Florida to enjoy the incredible wildlife. I hope ...
Don’t swallow developers’ snake-oil promise to re-grow seagrass beds
By Citrus County Chronicle In 2008, then-Gov. Charlie Crist, citing serious concerns and the public interest, vetoed a measure that ...
Finally, manatees eat offered lettuce to hold off starvation
By David Fleshler Manatees started eating lettuce being offered to them by wildlife officers this week, in the first success ...
Fight to keep starving manatees alive
By The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board This week’s frigid snap had many Floridians worried about the fate of cold-stressed and starving ...
Reckless bill could further endanger manatees
Rep. Randy Fine Like many of you, I remain incredibly troubled by the staggering loss of seagrass in the Indian ...
Restore the Ocklawaha River and help save the manatees
By Eugene Kelly and Elizabeth Neville Florida manatees are experiencing an unprecedented crisis and urgent action is needed to secure ...
The Florida Legislature should provide the money to rescue and treat the state’s beleaguered manatees
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Florida Conservation Florida’s manatee population is on the cusp of collapse, and we risk losing ...
Florida’s manatees are starving and government officials need to act quickly to save them and the lagoon system that supports them
By the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board There’s no way to pretend Florida’s manatees aren’t endangered. They are. In every sense ...