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1990a |
New manatee sanctuary established at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Endangered Species Tech. Bull. (U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv.) 15(5): 10.
–Discusses manatee status in Florida, and announces a new sanctuary near Cape Canaveral. Other information on manatee rehabilitation and mortality is given on p. 11.
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1990b |
Florida adopts new manatee protection law.
Endangered Species Tech. Bull. (U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv.) 15(8): 7. 1 fig.
–Informal summary of new provisions of the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act.
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Turner, Robert O.; Buckingham, Cheryl A.
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1993 |
Navy is enlisted in plan to protect manatees.
Endangered Species Tech. Bull. (U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv.) 18(2): 1, 10-11. 2 figs. Mar.-May 1993.
–Describes the development and implementation of a manatee protection plan for the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Georgia, after several manatees were killed there by tugboats.
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1996 |
Die-off decimates Florida manatee.
Endangered Species Bull. (U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv.) 21(3): 27. 1 fig. May/June 1996.
–Briefly describes the spring 1996 manatee die-off in southwest Florida, noting that test results are still inconclusive but that the evidence is consistent with red tide as the cause.
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Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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