For decades, Walt Disney World has cared for thousands of fish and marine mammals to help with conservation and research. As ...

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

Representatives Darren Soto (D-FL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Florida's manatees. Specifically, the Manatee ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Walt Disney World is making changes at EPCOT to help Florida’s manatee population. “The Seas with ...

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

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

Disney has expanded further on their new role as a short-term rehabilitation center for manatees located at The Seas with ...

Red tide is causing fish kills and respiratory irritation at some Florida beaches, but are Sarasota and Manatee area beaches ...

EPCOT has two new manatees, but they won’t be here as long as their beloved predecessors, for a very good reason.

Floridians love manatees. The marine animals, lovingly known as "sea cows" or "gentle giants," spend the winters swimming in rivers, bays, canals, estuaries and coastal areas from Nov. 15 to March 31.

Manatees are slow-moving, seagrass-eating marine mammals. Florida manatees spend up to eight hours a day grazing on seagrasses and other marine or freshwater vegetation, consuming up to 10% of ...