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Clearwater Marine Aquarium Receives $3.5 Million for Manatee Research and Rehabilitation Pools

Posted June 16, 2022

Florida Governor Desantis signed a record $109.9 billion budget including $3.5 million directed for manatee rehabilitation pools at Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The funds are part of a record $20 million set to enhance and expand the State’s manatee acute care facilities and to restore spring access and habitat restoration in manatee concentrated areas.

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Study Confirms Belizean Manatees Face Similar Fate to Florida Manatees, Death by Boat Strike

Posted June 14, 2022

Data collected by the Belize Marine Mammal Stranding Network found that collision with watercraft accounted for the main cause of manatee strandings over a 23-year period, from 1997 to 2019.

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Help a Rescued Manatee Calf

Updated September 28, 2021 Posted September 24, 2021

Ginger is an adult, loggerhead sea turtle who was found floating sideways near Three Rooker Island in Pinellas County on September 4, 2021.

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Clearwater Marine Aquarium Announces $10 Million Manatee Rehabilitation Exhibit

Updated March 23, 2023 Posted September 7, 2021

CMA announces new manatee rehabilitation center.

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Clearwater Marine Aquarium Announces New Documentary

Posted May 4, 2021

A new CMA documentary is set to be released Summer 2021.

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Clearwater Marine Aquarium Celebrates the Beginning of Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Posted April 8, 2021

Sea turtle nesting season is kicking off April 10 with a virtual Sea Turtle Awareness Day event. Nesting season runs May 1 – October 31.

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Entangled Right Whale Found Dead off South Carolina Coast

Updated March 8, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021

Chronic entanglement was this right whale’s cause of death.

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Rare Whale Calf Spotted by Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute Biologists

Updated March 4, 2021 Posted December 30, 2020

This is the fourth mom and calf pair spotted this season

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Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute Expands Aerial Survey Area to Track One of the Rarest Whales in the World

Updated March 3, 2021 Posted December 21, 2020

Efforts are critical to the survival of Right whales in North America

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First Two Right Whale Calves Sighted off Georgia and Florida Coast

Updated March 3, 2021 Posted December 9, 2020

This year’s calving season is critical to the species’ survival

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