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Unique seagrass nursery aims to help Florida's starving manatees

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-02-08

The manatee population in Florida was largely impacted last year. More than 1,000 of them died in 2021, due mostly to starvation. They consume about 100 pounds of seagrass a day, and this staple food is now scarce in Florida's Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile-long estuary along the state's east coast.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-02-unique-seagrass-nursery-aims-florida.html