Image description: A three-day old, 77-pound orphaned Manatee calf was discovered by personnel at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After failing to locate its mother, officers teamed up with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rescue the calf and transport it to the Manatee Conservation Center in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
The caregivers named the calf “Guamá” in honor of a Taino Chief of the eastern province of Cuba. The calf is doing well and adjusting comfortably to its new environs.
In approximately two years, Guamá can be transported back to Cuba and released with a satellite transmitter.
Learn more about this amazing rescue.
Images courtesy of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast.
Image description: A 21-year-old adult male dolphin is measured by Dr. Randall Wells, senior conservation scientist for the Chicago Zoological Society, during a dolphin health assessment in Sarasota Bay, FL. This dolphin has been observed since birth and has continued to exhibit good health and robust body condition.
Photo from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Image description: A Fish and Wildlife Conservation biologist examines the mouth of a young Kemp’s ridley sea turtle for any evidence of oil or tar in the mouth, which would indicate that the turtle has ingested oil. Turtles may ingest oil by feeding on oiled prey or by eating tar balls.
FWC biologists and other rescue workers are searching for oil-impacted sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to assess the extent of the damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The rescue workers’ main goal is to find and rehabilitate as many of the oil-impacted sea turtles as possible.
Learn more about the efforts to help the effected sea turtles.
Photo by Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
