Tag: manatee

Female manatee Daphne was released into her native Florida waters earlier this week. After being rescued by SeaWorld Orlando as an orphan in 2018 and spending a year rehabilitating at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, another U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Manatee Rescue & Rehabilitation Partnership (MRP) participant is back in the habitat where she was born.

Defenders is working to coexist with manatees by focusing on: Habitat: Protecting and restoring habitat Transportation: Making waters safer for manatees (reducing mortality by identifying dangerous areas and working to establish speed zones)