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Under the Endangered Species Act, the West Indian manatee was considered to be threatened, but now wildlife experts are subdividing the group into two subspecies, each with its own unique designation.
In the wake of thousands of Florida manatee deaths in recent years, federal wildlife officials Wednesday announced they will launch a new scientific review to determine whether the animal should ...
In 2023 the Florida panther was featured on a United States Postal Service forever stamp as part of the Endangered Species set, based on a photograph from Joel Sartore's Photo Ark. The stamp was dedicated at a ceremony at the National Grasslands Visitor Center in Wall, South Dakota. [70]
Scientists collect samples from a mullet in the Florida Keys, where a fish kill has been happening since November 2023. The two phenomena may be connected, but so far, scientists are at a loss to ...
The ongoing rise in sea level, owing to climate change, is a new threat to its remaining habitat on the islands of southern Florida. [12] Beginning in 2023 when assisted migration was newly authorized as a recovery option for endangered species, Key deer was among the animal species mentioned in the press that might have no other option for ...
This individual inspects a kayak situation. Manatees are large marine mammals that inhabit slow rivers, canals, saltwater bays, estuaries, and coastal areas.They are a migratory species, inhabiting the Florida waters during the winter and moving as far north as Virginia and into the Chesapeake Bay, sometimes seen as far north as Baltimore, Maryland and as far west as Texas in the warmer summer ...
It is the farthest north a sawfish has been tagged in at least 30 years, researchers said.
The Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) is an endangered subspecies of grasshopper sparrow native to the dry prairies of south-central Florida. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Florida grasshopper sparrow is one of four subspecies of grasshopper sparrows in North America, and is perhaps the most endangered. [ 4 ]