Searching for gifts of the wildly unexpected this Father’s Day? Adopt-A-Manatee from Save the Manatee Club! There are 33 real, living manatee adoptees to choose from for Dad including Deep Dent, Paddy Doyle, Doc, and Crazy Nick. For a $25 tax-deductible donation, receive an adoption certificate, full-color photo, biography and membership handbook. The $35 package also includes the new official Club T-shirt. Shipping is free. Help Florida’s endangered manatees this Father’s Day. Call 1-800-432-JOIN or visit save the manatee.org.
Note! More than 500 manatees, or 10% of the estimated population, have already died this year, many from cold stress due to the prolonged cold weather this past winter. Manatees are also threatened this year by the current and ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the April explosion of a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana. If efforts to stop its progress fail, the spill could become the largest in U.S. history, and the consequences could be catastrophic for manatees and other wildlife.
