{"id":270304,"date":"2026-05-14T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:19:08","slug":"injured-manatee-rescued-from-estero-bay-after-possible-boat-strike-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270304\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured manatee rescued from Estero Bay after possible boat strike | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTERO BAY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 A manatee was found seriously injured in Estero Bay near the Pink Shell Resort.<\/p>\n<p>Naturalist Rob Howell was kayaking when he discovered the injured manatee. He contacted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Florida+Fish+and+Wildlife+Conservation+Commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> and the Manatee Division.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"MANATEE STRUCK BY BOAT\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Crews transported the manatee to <a href=\"https:\/\/zootampa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zoo Tampa<\/a>, where it remains in critical condition, Howell said. WINK News reached out to FWC for more information.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"MANATEE STRUCK BY BOAT\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESTERO BAY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 A manatee was found seriously injured in Estero Bay near the Pink Shell Resort.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,10124,44407,3961,28,4134,77606,22624,135,48053],"class_list":["post-270304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-estero","tag-estero-bay","tag-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-florida","tag-manatee","tag-manatee-conservation","tag-manatees","tag-tampa","tag-zoo-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270304","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=270304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}