Q&A – Are Florida’s Manatee Deaths The Result Of A Growing Population?

Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 10:34 a.m.

To your broader point, the combination of a growing population contrasted with a rapidly declining habitat has reached a capitulation point this year. So yes, part of what’s happening here is a byproduct of the progress we’ve made in helping aid in the recovery of the manatee population over the past thirty years.