Environment: Last Chance for the Manatee

Can the gentle sea creature be saved from extinction ?

They look a bit like Grover Cleveland.

Same whiskers, thick wrinkled skin.

Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat—not unlike veal—as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In...