Manatee Awareness Month
These gentle giants of the sea need our care and understanding to thrive in their home - the tranquil waters of coastal habitats.
Position your brand as a guardian of marine life by promoting responsible wildlife tourism and conservation education during Manatee Awareness Month.
- Share manatee safety tips for boaters and coastal visitors to reduce human-wildlife conflict
- Partner with conservation nonprofits to highlight the impact of responsible tourism on endangered manatee populations
- Create educational content about manatee behavior and habitat needs to shift consumer attitudes toward wildlife protection
- Feature customer stories of ethical wildlife encounters and support for marine conservation initiatives
Manatee really are just wonderfully gentle creatures, but they aren’t at all quick, and certainly not quick enough to avoid the speedboats that often share their homes. Our use of the watery environments they live in leads to all sorts of interactions that are less than optimal to a happy manatee. The speedboat propellers often chew up their backs and cause grievous harm, and even those who appreciate them and try to keep them safe can bring them harm.
Feeding manatees, petting them, and even trying to ride them are all things that happen from overzealous tourists, but these can disrupt the natural day to day life of the manatee and impact their ability to survive. Manatee Awareness Month works to spread the news about these wonderful creatures and how to live side by side with them without bringing them harm or otherwise leading to their already endangered status becoming worse. After all, a future without manatee is a sad future indeed.