Fred Mays, Author at Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/author/fredmays/ At Home on Earth Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:59:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bluedotliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Bluedot_site-icon-32x32.png Fred Mays, Author at Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/author/fredmays/ 32 32 Saving Manatees From the Bottom Up  https://bluedotliving.com/saving-manatees-from-the-bottom-up/ https://bluedotliving.com/saving-manatees-from-the-bottom-up/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:55:29 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=17758 Over the past three winters, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission estimates that 2,400 manatees  — more than a third of the entire population — have died, overwhelmingly by starvation due to the loss of seagrass, their primary food source.

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