Middleboro Review 2: Florida’s manatees are starving to death

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Florida’s manatees are starving to death

In only two years, we’ve lost 25% of the manatees on Florida’s east coast.

Unchecked pollution is killing the manatees’ food source, and as a result they are starving to death at unprecedented rates. This is simply unacceptable.

Earthjustice is suing the EPA for failing to revisit Florida’s water quality standards and failing to protect the manatees — and we need your support. When you donate today, your Earth Day gift will be matched $2:$1 to power our work on this and hundreds of other important cases.

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Almost 10 years ago, the EPA approved Florida’s water quality criteria for the Indian River Lagoon, concluding that it would not “adversely affect” the manatees.

Since then, fertilizer, sewage, and manure have polluted the waters and caused massive algae outbreaks that kill seagrass — an important food source for manatees.

Manatees were already a threatened species, and now their numbers are dwindling at an alarming rate.They are just one of a million species that could be extinct in our lifetime, and we have a duty to protect them.

Earthjustice is fighting for the manatees, and to protect species biodiversity, with every legal tool we have. We represent our clients for free, because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Donors like you are the reason we can work on hundreds of cases like this one, to persevere and prove that we still have hope for a healthier, more equitable planet.

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