ecosystem press

Manatees had a terrible 2020. Rainfall and floodgates are partly to blame

Louis Dethomas - January 10, 2021

Adriana Brasileiro for Miami Herald writes:

In a year when a third of manatee fatalities in Florida were not investigated because COVID-19 restrictions limited necropsies and boat strikes once again topped deaths caused by humans, one indicator stood out: manatees killed by floodgates and locks.

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