{"id":161791,"date":"2026-02-19T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161791\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:23:10","slug":"25-dead-manatees-pulled-from-manatee-park-waters-in-lee-county-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161791\/","title":{"rendered":"25 dead manatees pulled from Manatee Park waters in Lee County | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\">LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Crews are on scene removing 25 dead\u00a0manatees from the waterways of Manatee Park in Lee County, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\">FWC said that initial observations suggest that cold stress may be a contributing factor to the dead manatees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">On Thursday, Lee County Parks and Recreation posted on its Facebook account delaying the opening of Manatee Park due to \u201cunforeseen circumstances.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">WINK News traveled to Manatee Park, where our team\u00a0observed\u00a0crews on location removing a deceased manatee via crane lift and placed\u00a0into an industrial dumpster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">FWC officials confirmed to WINK News that this matter is being\u00a0investigated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182151397 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">WINK News will provide updates\u00a0regarding\u00a0the manatee removal whenever new developments occur.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Crews are on scene removing 25 dead\u00a0manatees from the waterways of Manatee Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-161791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161791","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=161791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}