Natural History Wanderings

NPR reports

In Florida, an ecological disaster has led to the deaths of more than 1,000 manatees. The large, slow-moving marine mammals graze on seagrass in shallow coastal areas, but a massive die-off of seagrass has left them without enough to eat.

Read more listen to the story at  Starving manatees in Florida are taxing efforts to save them : NPR