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Recent Newsletter Articles

View our most recent newsletter stories, published quarterly in The Manatee Zone and bi-monthly in Paddle Tales.

2025 - Paddle Tales eNews

Volunteer Mana-team Support for Earth Day

2025 - Paddle Tales eNews

Sightings Update: April 2025

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

First Rescue of the Year is in Alabama

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

Several Coastal Adoptees Surface This Winter

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

The Ladies of Homosassa: Comfy in Their Heated Pools

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

Cold Stress Threatens Many Manatees

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

A Bitterly Cold Winter and Record Numbers

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

Advocating for Manatees’ Critical Habitat

March 2025 - The Manatee Zone

Ester Joins Our Adoption Program

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The Manatee Zone Quarterly Newsletter

The Manatee Zone is released once every three months and is available in print format to donors and adoptive parents and electronically to everyone. It features the latest news from the manatee world and Save the Manatee Club.

Paddle Tales Bi-Monthly eNewsletter

Paddle Tales is a digital newsletter released every other month and features facts, activities, and educational content.

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Volunteers With Gina And Hope

Volunteer Mana-team Support for Earth Day

April is the perfect time to come together and make a meaningful impact on manatee conservation and their habitat.

Merlin rests at Blue Spring State Park on February 22, 2025.

Sightings Update: April 2025

Late February and early March saw more cold weather and we counted over 400 manatees on February 22 and over 300 on March 8, which might be a record for March.

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Sightings Update: February 2025

Manatee Season at Blue Spring started in full force in late November and we have had many exciting adoptee sightings since!

Staff members Gina and Stephanie take a break with Lead Volunteer Kerri at a recent festival.

Volunteers Make a Difference for Manatees!

Our volunteers, who dedicate their time and energy to protecting manatees and inspiring others to take action, have made our 2025 events so far a success!

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Bridging Generations: Introducing Manatees to Independent Living Communities

For residents of independent living communities, a simple movie theater screen became a window into the serene world of these gentle giants.

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Sightings Update: Manatee Season Has Started at Blue Spring!

With unseasonably warm weather, the manatees spent some extra time in the St. Johns River before arriving at Blue Spring this year.