The lettuce, funded by more than 1,000 individual donations, is offered to manatees that gather in the warm water discharge near a power plant on Florida's east coast as they typically do during cold months.
FILE - An adult and young manatee swim together in a canal, Feb. 16, 2022, in Coral Gables, Fla. The experimental program to feed Florida manatees starving because water pollution is destroying their natural food has topped 55 tons of lettuce, wildlife officials said Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
Through Feb. 25 this year, about 375 confirmed manatee deaths have been recorded. That compares to 389 during the same period last year; both are far above the 136 deaths reported in 2020 during the first two months. “We're not solving the seagrass issue in a year," said Tom Reinert of the Florida wildlife commission.
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