Are you a Brevard County resident that loves manatees? If so, vote “yes” for the renewal of the Save Our Indian River Lagoon ...

Save the Manatee Club (“SMC”) strongly opposes the misleadingly-titled “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of ...

While we understand that certain supporters of the Permitting Bill believe that it will help to address anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating “green” energy infrastructure, the fact ...

In 1979, the late former Florida Governor and co-founder of Save the Manatee Club, Bob Graham, first declared November as Manatee Awareness Month, at a time when the state first began establishing ...

The Lesley Argiri and Brian McDonald 5K Scholarship Fund is established to support and encourage outstanding individuals pursuing a graduate degree in Marine or Aquatic Biology. This scholarship aims ...

Melissa’s journey with Save the Manatee Club began as a supporter and grew into a dedicated volunteer presenter role, inspiring audiences to advocate for manatees. As an avid scuba diver, snorkeler, ...

Florida manatees are large, slow-moving aquatic mammals endemic to Florida. Despite their large size, manatees only have a thin, incomplete layer of body fat rather than thick layers of blubber. Being ...

The Indian River Lagoon (IRL) is one of Florida’s most important estuaries and an essential home to thousands of Florida’s imperiled manatees. As the direct result of human derelictions over many ...

2024 has been an exciting year for manatee sightings in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Manatee sighting reports to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s Manatee Sighting Network (DISL/MSN) were at an all-time ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s. These claims, based on limited anthropological records, ...

The cool weather of a Florida winter has been upon us for several months and the manatees have been visiting Homosassa Springs frequently. Some daily counts in January reached 200 or more manatees in ...