Save the Manatee Club (“SMC”) strongly opposes the misleadingly-titled “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of ...

Through your donations and adoptions, we help protect manatees by aiding in the recovery and protection of manatees and their aquatic ecosystems throughout the world.

Melissa’s journey with Save the Manatee Club began as a supporter and grew into a dedicated volunteer presenter role, inspiring audiences to advocate for manatees. As an avid scuba diver, snorkeler, ...

The Lesley Argiri and Brian McDonald 5K Scholarship Fund is established to support and encourage outstanding individuals pursuing a graduate degree in Marine or Aquatic Biology. This scholarship aims ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s. These claims, based on limited anthropological records, ...

Save the Manatee Club in support of the GreenSpace Water Alliance (GWA) is inviting communities to rally together to remove trash and debris from shorelines of the Indian River Lagoon. The cleanup ...

Don’t let their size fool you—despite the manatee’s unofficial title as the ‘chubby mermaids of the sea,’ manatees don’t have nearly as much fat as other aquatic mammals do. While other aquatic ...

Save the Manatee® Club celebrates decades of international partnerships working to protect manatees and their habitat around the world. Longwood, FL—Save the Manatee Club is inviting the public to ...

African manatees are one of three manatee species in the world. Found along the western coast of Africa from Senegal to Angola, they inhabit a wide range of habitats, from offshore islands to inland ...

The cool weather of a Florida winter has been upon us for several months and the manatees have been visiting Homosassa Springs frequently. Some daily counts in January reached 200 or more manatees in ...

In 1979, the late former Florida Governor and co-founder of Save the Manatee Club, Bob Graham, first declared November as Manatee Awareness Month, at a time when the state first began establishing ...

Yesterday, images of a manatee in Florida’s Homosassa River with the word “Trump” scratched into its back went viral. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service began an investigation into this ...