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Monday, April 9, 2007

Manatees

Monday the U.S. fish and Wildlife service decided that manatees no longer need to be named endangered but put on the threatened list. When one first hears this they would probably think this is a good thing. In a way it is because there are more of them but at the same time its not, because they are not protected then people will poach them causing their numbers to go back down. The number of manatees has doubled this year with 2,812 manatees in Florida. Even though they are making a come back I don't think they should be taken off the endangered list quite yet.

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