Manatee deaths in Florida point to a global decline in seagrass ecosystems

Mongabay
Sep 6, 2021, 12:37 pm249 pts
In July 2021, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced that 866 West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) had died in the state of Florida in the first seven months of the year alone. The news shocked and saddened many Floridians, for whom the gentle, slow-moving mammal is a statewide mascot, and served as a…

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