The North American east coast, including Florida, is home to West Indian manatee. The Amazonian manatee can be found in the Amazon River, while the African manatee lives along the west coast and ...

The West Indian manatee on the new stamp is described as a “gentle and vulnerable” marine mammal, inhabiting Florida’s inland waterways and warm areas of the coastal Atlantic, Caribbean and ...

The West Indian manatee is no longer considered endangered thanks to population growth and improvement in conditions of the species’ habitat, federal authorities said Thursday. The U.S. Fish and ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened – a less serious status ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the completion and availability of its five-year status review of the West Indian manatee, a federally-listed species protected under the ...

TALLAHASSEE — The West Indian manatee is being downgraded from endangered to threatened under federal law, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday. The lumbering sea cow, Florida ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee, which includes the Florida manatee.It received thousands ...

The West Indian manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the African manatee each still faces "a high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future," according to the IUCN.

Manatees are the slow, lumbering, gentle giants of the aquatic ecosystem. Every November, the West Indian manatee, native to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, makes its way to Florida’s ...

Underwood, with the federal agency, said updating the West Indian manatee plan is one of many recovery tasks that will be undertaken. “This would include establishing a new recovery planning ...