The new regulation splits the West Indian manatee into the Florida manatee ... Roff also said climate change and degradation of the manatee's habitat should be sufficient to re-classify them ...

A federal appeals court will hear arguments in May in a closely watched case about whether the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

It's about whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency improperly shifted permitting authority to Florida for wetlands ...

The new regulation splits the West Indian manatee into the Florida manatee and Antillean ... Roff also said climate change and degradation of the manatee's habitat should be sufficient to re-classify ...

Ramos Keith, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Florida manatee, a subspecies of the West Indian manatee ... Factors such as habitat destruction, water pollution, ...

Crystal River isn’t just another dot on the Florida map – it’s nature’s masterpiece hiding in plain sight, just 90 minutes north of Tampa on the state’s Gulf Coast.

No, what puts Crystal River on the map is something far more magical: it’s one of the few places on Earth where you can have a face-to-face encounter with West Indian manatees in their natural habitat ...

Seminole Audubon: Ken Meyer, Executive Director of Avian Research and Conservation Institute, will discuss the life cycle and habitat needs ... Club Central Florida West Sanford Branch, SafeHouse ...

Both Florida and Antillean manatees are subspecies of the West Indian manatee. The finding shows that FWS ... “I mean, this is not (a) natural habitat, and it would be best if we could have threatened ...