The project focused on engaging the local community to end manatee hunting. Conservationists worked side by side with fishermen—both those who had hunted manatees and those who hadn’t—holding talks, ...

Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small ...

The Amazonian manatee, threatened by hunting and climate change, is receiving crucial support from institutions and local ...

County officials said the new campus puts some county services “closer to where much of the residential and commercial growth ...

The manatees of the Amazon region have the familiar nostrils and sad eyes of their Florida relatives but they are smaller — and they’re endangered. Ongoing hunting and the growing effects of climate ...

Bacuri’s care is shared by three institutions: the Emílio Goeldi Museum, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity ...

This long reproductive cycle is one reason the manatee population has not recovered from the commercial hunting that persisted until the mid-20th century. Children arrive at the Emilio Goeldi ...