Bear Warriors United receives permit to harvest and transport hyacinth and hydrilla for manatees
In early 2022, Bear Warriors United and its legal team partnered with Texas Aquatic Harvesting to apply for a permit from FDACS to mechanically harvest and transport hyacinths and hydrilla to and for starving manatees. After a stringent 5 month application process, the partnership qualified for and was granted the state permit! A representative for Bear…
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What is the difference between a “Manatee Feeding Program” and a “Manatee Starvation Prevention Program”?
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is currently not requesting for State or Federal Funding for their Manatee feeding program. They are receiving donations from the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida and only have the budget to feed 3,000 lbs of Romaine Lettuce a day to the Manatees at the Florida Power and Light…
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PathoBiology Laboratory Reports from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
This is a side by side comparison of the Mortality events taking and to showcase the lack of information being shared with the public. HERE is a link to all of the annual reports of Manatee Mortalities. From the F.W.C Website: SOURCE LINKED HERE “The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the U.S.…
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Bear Warriors United Sues State for Manatee Starvation
November 17, 2021 Via Certified Mail Shawn Hamilton Secretary of Department of Environmental Protection 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard M.S. 49 Tallahassee, FL 32399 Re: 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue Regarding Violations of the Endangered Species Act regarding harm and death to manatees under the Endangered Species Act. Dear Secretary Hamilton, On behalf of the Florida…
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Information from Sea World: Water Hyacinth is part of Manatees’ Natural Diet
Water Hyacinth is part of Manatees’ Natural Diet’ This information is sourced from SeaWorld’s Website LINKED HERE “Diet Preferences & Resources” “Food Intake” “Method of Feeding” “Fresh Water” “Both the West Indian and West African manatees may require a source of fresh water for drinking. Manatees have been seen drinking fresh water from hoses, sewage…
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Katrina’s Response to the Satellite Beach Police Social Media Post on Feeding Manatees Water Hyacinth
On February 16th, the Police Department wrote inaccurate statments on their Facebook which read: PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FEED MANATEES WATER HYACINTH! Water hyacinth is being dumped into the DeSoto Park canal, and other waterways in the city, in an attempt to feed the manatees. Feeding manatees is illegal, and water hyacinth is also…
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Manatee Dying in Pain During A Starvation Event- Our Email to F.W.C Feb. 2022
PLEASE, I am down on my knees begging all of you; to please, for the love of all that is sacred and holy on this Earth, FEED THE DESOTO CANAL MANATEES IMMEDIATELY. Click this Photo Album to see the photos of a Starving Manatee in the DeSoto Canal this past month. I have made the request…
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Lake Kissimee Spraying
Credit to Scott Wilson via Facebook This is exactly why I remain so outspoken and critical of #MyFWC invasive plant management. I finally get a chance to come use our Kissimmee cottage and do so fishing. This is what I am treated to today. I’m a decent fisherman, but certainly no camera man. So there are three…
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People Saving a Starving Manatee in the De Soto Canal
Here is a video of people saving a manatee within the De Soto Canal. “Unified Command staff are continuing the supplemental feeding trial for manatees at the Temporary Field Response Station in Brevard County, operating 7 days a week. Staff are also collecting and evaluating as many carcasses along the Atlantic coast as possible. Through…
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Stranded Manatees in The St. Lucie Locks Due to Army Corp of Engineers
Here is more infomraiton on the Army Corp of Engineers Project which left 33 stranded manatees wihtin the Port St. Lucie Locks since they drained it.
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Florida Government Uses Tax Dollars to Poison Manatees
Did you know our government is poisoning manatees and their food ( and they’re using our tax dollars to do it) 1. Our City, County & State Government spend millions of taxpayer dollars every year to spray deadly herbicide on hydrilla & hyacinths- manatees’ favorite food 2. Tuesday, I asked Seminole County Commission FOR THE…
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One Year Of Advocacy
WOW I cant believe it’s been ONE YEAR since I started asking the FWC to feed starving manatees mechanically/manually harvested hyacinths and hydrilla. To acknowledge the morbid anniversary, this past weekend I endured the cold temps to manually remove hyacinths from a lake that had not been sprayed with deadly herbicide chemicals. I did this…
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Did You Know Senator Albritton is the Head of the Chemical Cartel!?
Is Senator Albritton the head the Chemical Cartel snake The Chemical Cartel is responsible for lobbying our elected law makers into spending millions of taxpayer dollars and forcing agencies like FWC into spraying millions of gallons of deadly herbicide chemicals into our lakes, rivers, ponds and streams…. poisoning and killing our fish, birds, wildlife, ecosystems…
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Are Florida Manatees In Decline? – IDEAS For Us
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recorded 819 manatee deaths from January 1, 2021 to June 25, 2021,1 182 more deaths than recorded in total in 2020 (637 deaths).2 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared the Atlantic Florida Manatee crisis as an “Unusual Mortality Event” (UME), due to the significant die-off…
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1,100 Dead Manatees.
That is how many manatees starved to death in the Indian River Lagoon in 2021. 2022 won’t be any better folks. There is no sea grass for them to eat and we are still adding too much pollution into the IRL to even think about re-growing sea grass. Don’t help them hide this from the…
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FWC Sprays Poison
The Florida Wildlife Commission has been begged by so many citizens to stop polluting our waterways with toxic weed killing chemicals like glyphosate, but they won’t stop doing it! They are fouling our waterways for decades to come, trying to kill water grasses that could be used to save our starving manatees. Lettuce isn’t going…
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Stop The Starve 