Located about 90 minutes north of Tampa on Florida’s Nature Coast, Crystal River isn’t your typical beach town plastered with high-rise condos and chain restaurants.

The Environmental Lands Management and Acquisition Committee recommended two more East County properties to Manatee County ...

The Environmental Lands Management and Acquisition Committee recommended two more East County properties to Manatee County ...

PIER 22 offers a menu that celebrates Florida’s bounty with a focus on fresh seafood that makes sense given its waterfront location. While the restaurant serves everything from steaks to pasta, it’s ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began efforts to restore fish and wildlife habitat on Lake George.

The Trump administration’s government-wide staff cuts threaten federally protected manatees in a Florida national wildlife refuge established for the purpose of safeguarding the beloved sea cows, ...

Keep Manatee Beautiful needs help in plating the sea oats on the beaches of Anna Maria Island. They need around 300 ...

The new habitat, Manatee Cove, was converted from a 300,000-gallon dolphin exhibit to meet the needs of rescued manatees requiring long-term care.

Pat Rose, 73, is the executive director of Save the Manatee Club, an advocacy group in Florida. He remembers the moment more than 50 years ago when he saw a manatee underwater for the first time ...

The West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, was downlisted in 2017 from endangered to threatened. Nearly 2,000 manatees died in Florida in 2021 and 2022—a two-year record.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday announced a plan to more than double the critical habitat designated for manatees in Florida to 1.9 million acres. The proposed revisions also include ...

As of Sept. 13, the state had totaled 451 manatee deaths this year, The Fish and Wildlife Service said in the proposed rule that it designated 965,394 acres of critical habitat in 1976, based on where ...