Are Manatees are starving to death here in Florida! Look at this emaciated Momma Manatee, ribs exposed with her baby, that is taking advantage of high tide in order to eat grass from someone’s back yard! That is showing real desperation! Their normal diet of aquatic plants have all been killed, I believe from the Aquatic Plant Chemical Warfare assault by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commissions relentless spraying of all of Florida’s lakes, rivers and aquifers since the 1970’s. In 2017, they increased the active ingredient Glyphosate by 250% as well as 25% more gallons to nearly 1 million gallons yearly. I believe this fueled the biblical proportions of death in all species during our worst Red Tide in addition to wiping out all the food (plants) that are manatees need to survive!
Manatees are plant eating herbivores who rely on aquatic plants such as Hydrilla and water Hyacinth as part of their main food sources. Although Hydrilla is a non-native, invasive species that was introduced to the U.S. 50 years ago, it has been eaten and maintained by manatees as a primary food source for decades. Manatees require roughly 100 lbs, or 1/10th of their body weight, in food per day as most adult manatees average weight at 1000 lbs. Yet sadly the FWC has been spraying chemicals in Florida water reservoirs that target and kill the invasive Hydrilla species directly as well as seagrasses. The chemicals used by the FWC are not exclusive and are killing off many plant resources they come into contact with. Out of desperation, the manatees are forced to search and feed off of plants such as Spanish moss that dangles off a Cypress tree high over the water (and lacks significant nutrient abundance). The manatees cannot survive off of low nutrient, low abundance and hard to reach food sources. There is such a lack of green food sources that the manatees have been observed by locals eating anything colored green found in and around the Florida marshes and reservoirs.
Luckily Hydrilla is not the only food manatees love. Manatees also feed on seagrass for food once they complete their trek up to the gulf for the summers. However all the seagrasses have been killed off too, with herbicide spraying practices by the FWC. The FWC (The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission), is actively releasing and mixing chemicals such as Diquat, Glyphosate, and 2,4- D. According to the EPA government webpage, “2,4-D generally has moderate toxicity to birds and mammals, is slightly toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates and is practically non toxic to honeybees. The ester forms of 2,4-D can be highly toxic to fish and other aquatic life.”
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Mechanical harvest is the future and much better for our ecosystems.
From January to June of 2021, the FWC has documented a record-shattering 841 manatee deaths in the state. 63 of the 841 deaths this year have been watercraft involved fatalities.
Manatees were classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1967. In 2017, their status changed as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downgraded them to “threatened” but at this rate, after only 4 years, maybe they need to be listed ad endangered once again.
Today, we ask you to please take action to help save Florida manatees. Water pollution from herbicides and weed killers are the reason so much of their sea grass is being killed. County biologists say, when you use fertilizers and weed killers, it will eventually end up in the bay and kill the sea grass, so the less you use, the better. Please sign and share the petition by our founder Jim Abernethy that is killing all the plants in Florida .https://www.change.org/p/florida-stop-the-state-sanctioned-poisoning-of-our-lakes-and-rivers
