Manatees need our help

According to the News-Press, "For such a docile creature, the Florida manatee sure can keep a controversy boiling. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will vote Wednesday whether to reclassify the manatee from endangered to threatened on the state’s list of imperiled species. State scientists and recreational fishermen say reclassification is scientifically justified; the leading manatee-advocacy organization says the science demands that manatees remain endangered."

This in really incredible. Manatees are gentle slow moving creatures. They need humans to protect them, by keeping them on the endangered list and making an attempt to protect them. I live on a canal. A very populated manatee area. Along with their devistating fate, people on boats that go by very fast. I see it everyday, the boats go speeding by without a care. Without so much as taking the time to slow down and turn off their propellers. I try to protect them by asking which really amounts to yelling because the boats are speeding by, to slow down. Most of the time, boaters don't care. My neighbor spent money and time puting up a sign, manatee zone. Boaters still don't slow down.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources uses the same science that the state adopted, and determined that the manatee meets the criteria for being endangered,” manatee club Executive Director Pat Rose said. “We’ve been saying it all along, but this turns it from supposition to fact.“If you use the same science and same criteria, you’ll come out with endangered. Had the state done that, there’s no question the manatee would remain endangered.”