The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff found a small female manatee with severe cold stress in a ditch ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is actively investigating reports of a deceased manatee discovered in Largo. The adult manatee was found in a ...

The changes to protection zones come after an FWC 2024 manatee distribution survey that showed the animal’s travel patterns shifting closer to zones of the Withlacoochee River that are currently ...

A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

the FWC rescued a lone calf from Three Sisters Spring where they took the 67 inch male calf to the Bishop Museum's Manatee Rehab Facility. The third manatee was found in Magnolia Spring ...

Watercraft manatee deaths were up in 2024 as 96 sea cows were hit and killed by vessels in the Sunshine State. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, is reporting that 565 ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population ...

After extensive efforts to remove the tire, the manatee broke free in 2020 when it was hit by a boat propeller that cut off significant portions of the tire. If the public helps the FWC with ...

“The center of those problems was in the Indian River Lagoon, where over the years, they’ve had these problems with all these algal blooms,” FWC manatee veterinarian Martine de Wit said.