Add your name: Save the Florida manatee

Re: Docket number FWS-R4-ES-2024-0050

To save manatees from starvation, we need to protect their habitat before it’s too late. Pollution and runoff causes enormous algal blooms that cloud the water, shade seagrass beds, and starve them of sunlight. With no seagrass to eat, the manatees starve.

Granting the Florida manatee “endangered” status under the Endangered Species Act would provide vital protection to these incredible animals and the critical habitat they need to survive. With hundreds of manatees dying off each year, they need the strongest protections now if they are going to survive and thrive for years to come.

I strongly urge you to recognize the Florida manatee as an endangered species under the ESA.