{"id":471422,"date":"2010-03-25T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:26:39","slug":"fla-manatee-deaths-at-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471422","title":{"rendered":"Fla. manatee deaths at record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62M5GT20100323\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20100323&amp;t=2&amp;i=80779338&amp;w=460&amp;r=2010-03-23T235338Z_01_BTRE62M1UDG00_RTROPTP_0_USA-WEATHER-MANATEES\" width=\"267\" align=\"right\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ecoregions_of_Florida_%28EPA%29\">Florida<\/a> authorities yesterday said at least 431 manatees have died in  state waters this year, already surpassing in three months the record  for manatee deaths for any full calendar year on record.<\/p>\n<p>An initial report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation  Commission attributed most of the manatee deaths to &#8220;cold stress  syndrome&#8221; due to this year&#8217;s unusually harsh winter temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for deaths of the marine mammals was 429, which  occurred last year. That number was the highest for any year since the  state started tracking the fatalities in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Florida scientists counted a record high number of 5,067 manatees  living in state waters earlier this year, topping the previous high of  3,807 recorded in 2009 (Tom Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62M5GT20100323\" >Reuters<\/a>,  March 24). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3231&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3231\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida authorities yesterday said at least 431 manatees have died in state waters this year, already surpassing in three months the record for manatee deaths for any full calendar year on record. An initial report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission attributed most of the manatee deaths to &#8220;cold stress syndrome&#8221; due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}