Target: Delaware Senator Tom Carper, Head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Goal: Demand funding for manatee research and conservation to protect their declining population.
There are currently three species of manatees on this earth, and all of them are endangered or threatened. The Florida manatees, who live in the southern east coast waters, are one of the most critically endangered animals in the entire country. They have a small population hovering around 6,000. 2021 has proven to be a particularly difficult year for these gentle giants, and tragically over 800 of them have died. This has been attributed to several factors, including motorboats, but the largest contributor to manatee death appears to be the loss of their main food: sea grass beds.
These sea grass beds provide countless benefits to the shallow coastal waters they’re often found in. They grant food and shelter to hundreds of species of fish and animal, and their importance on the ecosystem cannot be understated. However, they’ve been disappearing rapidly in recent years due to ocean pollution, climate change, and other human activities. This has directly threatened manatees and caused many to starve to death.
Unfortunately, not much is known about the overall effects manatees have on their local ecosystems. Like many environmental concerns, their funding has often been slashed and allocated to other things. Sign below and demand Congress provide dedicated funds to researching and conserving manatees and the sea grass beds that feed them before it’s too late.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Tom Carper,
As the head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, you are in a crucial position to help with an increasingly important issue. The manatee populations off the coast of Florida have been in a rapid decline this year, with over 800 lost due to their main source of food, sea grass beds, disappearing. Manatees are incredibly gentle and docile creatures, with no ability to migrate thousands of miles or seek out alternative methods of survival. Additionally, sea grass beds provide food and shelter to countless other animals.
There is much we still don’t know about manatees and their effect on local ecosystems. It is critical that we divert funding into studying manatees and sea grass beds, both so that we can help preserve their populations for years to come and so that we better understand everything they do. Please make these investments on a creature that has been harmed by humans time and time again, and truly deserves better.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Benjamin Brandt
Wakey! Wakey! Time to save the manatees!
Maximum assistance must be provided to save the Manatees and upgrade their environment.
Please don’t ignore the plight of the manatees. Humans need to be more aware of our environment and try not to destroy the environments of our animals. Whether land, rivers or oceans, animal species need our help. Extinction is forever. We all need to do are part to save these majestic manatees and other citizens of our oceans.
We need to do all we can to keep all animal species from going extinct. It’s a shame the world got so ignorant as to destroy so many species. Time to wake up and change our ways.
These magnificent creatures are gifts. It us our duty to ensure their survival.
Please help save these animals or they will become distinct as well as many others!
PLEASE HELP THEM!!!
Please don’t let this be another case of too little too late…turn it around NOW so that the remaining manatees are saved….as the Lord intended.
As Head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment please do your job….Time to leave things better than you find them! WHATEVER THEY NEED PLEASE PROVIDE IT. ENSURE THAT SEA GRASS BEDS REMAIN PROTECTED….
OF COURSE THEY NEED HELP AND PROTECTION AND NOW!! YET AGAIN ANOTHER ANIMAL SPECIES IN DANGER, WHEN ARE HUMANS GOING TO WAKE UP AND STOP THIS STUPID, TOTALLY AVOIDABLE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH, ANIMALS AND THEMSELVES….WAKE UP…NOW. YOU WILL NEVER EVER COME BACK FROM …TOO LATE!!!!!
Save them and all of the living thing NOW!! PLEASE!!!
Please do all that is necessary to save these gentle, amazing manatees, before its too late and they’re gone forever.
They need to be saved. They must not go extinct
We really need to remember when we’ve killed this planet there is not a planet ‘B’ waiting for us.
The Manatees Needs 2 Saved Right Now!!!!
Right now, they need to fucking FEED them!!!!! Research is one thing – and we KNOW what the problem is – PEOPLE and their impact on the manatee’s habitat, including boating. But the immediate need is, these animals are STARVING.
Save animals from sick destruction
Delaware Senator Tom Carper, Head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
THE EGOISM AND THE GREED OF MAN IS INCREDIBLE, THEY DO NOT THINK THE EVIL THAT THEY ARE DOING TO THOSE CREATURES THAT GOD CREATED AND PLACED IN THIS WORLD AND THAT
THEN THEY WILL HAVE TO ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR ALL THEIR ACTIONS, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD
PLEASE HELP THE MANATEES! THANK YOU!
So very sad they must be saved
Congress has the OBLIGATION to provide dedicated funds to researching and conserving manatees and the sea grass beds that feed them before it’s too late.
Delaware Senator Tom Carper, Head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
I demand funding for manatee research and conservation to protect their declining population.