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In accordance with the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, an act of Congress designed to list endangered animal species and offer them limited protection, the manatee became one of 78 original species listed as being threatened with extinction. There are currently more than 1300 species on this list. [11]
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.
The official notice of the reclassification made clear that, even with the downlisting, all federal protections for the West Indian manatee under the Endangered Species Act would remain in place. [12] The West Indian manatee is also protected by the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978 [74] and the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
Endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus) Apart from mothers with their young, or males following a receptive female, manatees are generally solitary animals. [10] Manatees spend approximately 50% of the day sleeping submerged, surfacing for air regularly at intervals of less than 20 minutes.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the coming months will round up manatee data and decide whether the West Indian manatee species should be given bolstered ...
The Endangered Species Act is an important federal law aimed at helping bring imperiled animals back from the brink of extinction. And we absolutely, unequivocally, need manatees to be listed as ...
Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said Monday in a petition ...
While this conservation effort is focused on manatees in Puerto Rico, the CMCC also assists in programs for West Indian manatees in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Turks and Caicos, Guyana, and Venezuela, and for endangered sister species, such as the Amazonian manatee ...