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Wildlife Trust Manatee Work Video Highlights

Manatees and Motorboats

In Florida, recovering populations of manatees still face serious threats from collisions with motorboats.

Manatees and Power Plants

In Florida, power plants discharge warm water and provide manatees with essential habitats.

Elusive West African Manatees

The West African manatee is one of the least understood marine mammals in the world, yet they are highly susceptible to incidental capture in fishing nets and are hunted almost everywhere they occur.  The range of the species (the African Atlantic coast from Mauritania to Angola) is larger than the width of the United States, yet to date there have been only a handful of studies, many of which were short term surveys with no follow up or local capacity building.

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Wildlife Trust Adds Conservation Scientists to Team

Wildlife Trust announces the addition of two scientists to its growing team. James "Jim" Desmond and Parviez Hosseini, Ph.D., recently joined Wildlife Trust's Conservation Medicine program to work on core zoonotic disease research.

Parviez Hosseini, Senior Research Fellow, studies the dynamics of Chikungunya and other vector-borne diseases. Field veterinarian Jim Desmond will primarily manage wildlife field studies in Bangladesh, India, Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines.

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