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Local Voices: Manatees are starving to death, but Florida doesn’t seem to care

Posted by The Coastal Star on June 2, 2021 at 13:57

In the first four months of 2021, deaths reached 723; in all of 2020, 637 died in the state. There’s not enough sea grass to support all of them

We love manatees in Florida.
We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots after them. We brag

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