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This 6 page paper outlines the problems that the Florida Manatee are incurring. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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animal, bird and fish as to be too numerous to count. How? The move to the city increased the concentration of pollution and the human population began to boom because
of the access to better health care. Animals, and the environment were packed up and pushed out. Hardest hit were those animals whose habitat was aquatic. The gentle manatee, gray
giant of the freshwater inlets, fared far worse than many. Despite all efforts at conservation this species can be said to be barely holding its own. SEVERITY OF THE
PROBLEM Once numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the West Indies Manatee is now bordering on the brink of extinction(Beck). Its calm demeanor has captured the eye of the public.
However, in the end, it has to be said that what the Manatee represents is the last of the natural world that is giving away to the rapid overdevelopment of
last of the wilderness areas in the US. And while the public descries the harming of manatees and agrees that something should be done, no one can agree as to
what the actual something should be. In the end, no one seems willing to make the sacrifices necessary to save the manatee. What is
even more ironic is that Florida would seem to have a love affair with the manatee. It shows up on license plates, in souvenir stores, and works of art around
the state. However, Florida has a tradition of extinction, counting the Florida Panther (only thirty remain) and the Florida Crocodile (less than a hundred) among the casualties. Despite the wide
media attention that the manatee has enjoyed, the sobering fact still remains: the population of manatees continues to drop by the hundreds each year. The war to save the manatee
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