{"id":109079,"date":"2026-01-07T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:34:08","slug":"florida-manatee-deaths-surge-in-2025-with-more-than-600-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109079\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida manatee deaths surge in 2025 with more than 600 found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 600 manatees were found dead in Florida in 2025, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FWC recorded 628 manatee deaths last year, marking the highest mortality rate for the species since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most of the deaths were attributed to birth complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FWC said nearly 100 manatees were killed by boats, and 33 succumbed to cold stress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the new data on manatee deaths shows serious issues in reproductive health among the species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 600 manatees were found dead in Florida in 2025, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,8659,30,29,12481,22624],"class_list":["post-109079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-manatee-deaths","tag-manatees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}