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Article: Florida removes manatee from endangered species list.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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Byline: Ludmilla Lelis
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ Florida wildlife officials on Wednesday removed the manatee from the state's endangered species list in a move both momentous but in practical terms meaningless for now.
It was the most hotly debated issue in a daylong meeting of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which also added the gopher tortoise to the list of threatened species and dropped the previously threatened bald eagle from its classifications.
In their unanimous vote on manatees, the commissioners emphasized that downlisting the seacow to a status as a threatened species doesn't immediately change anything for the ...