March 22, 2024 Clinic After devastating die-offs, conditions for manatees are improving. But is it enough to save the species?
The Save the Manatee Club is also pushing for and partnering with other groups to have the manatee uplisted from a threatened species to an endangered species. The club is party to a petition filed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) by the Center for Biological Diversity, Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper and Frank S. González García.
March 22, 2024 Clinic Advocates threaten lawsuit to get Florida manatees reclassified as endangered species
"The West Indian manatee is in danger of extinction, and the (Fish and Wildlife) Service's continued delay in issuing its 12-month finding harms the manatee's prospects for survival and recovery," the notice said.
March 22, 2024 Clinic SEA COWS — Groups threaten to sue feds over manatee classification
Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic in a letter told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups intend to sue over the agency’s failure to respond to a November 2022 petition to reclassify manatees as endangered under federal law.
March 21, 2024 Clinic Wildlife advocates threaten lawsuit to get Florida manatees reclassified as an endangered species
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper, the Save the Manatee Club and Frank S. González García said in Thursday’s filing that federal officials did not comply with a requirement to provide findings within 12 months of the petition about whether reclassification was warranted.