James ‘Buddy’ Powell, defender of manatees, died on July 19, aged 70

Mongabay
Jul 23, 2025, 9:14 am312 pts
In 1967, on the spring-fed waters of Florida’s Crystal River, a teenager named James “Buddy” Powell encountered a stranger in a rowboat. The man, a Cornell University graduate student, was looking for manatees — a species so obscure then that few had studied it in the wild. Powell, who knew the local…

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