Endangered Manatees Explored by Wildlife Trust's Dr. James Powell in New Book

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Endangered Manatees Explored by Wildlife Trust's Dr. James Powell in New Book

NEW YORK, PALISADES, Jan. 15 -/E-Wire/-- Wildlife Trust announces publication of Manatees: Natural History & Conservation (Voyageur Press) by Dr. James "Buddy" Powell, Wildlife Trust's Director for Aquatic Conservation. Dr. Powell, a native Floridian, is a marine biologist who has studied manatees around the world for over thirty years. Wildlife Trust, an international conservation science organization, works to save endangered species and their habitats in partnership with local scientists and educators around the world (www.wildlifetrust.org).

Manatees offers scientific insights and information about the manatee and its cousin, the dugong, to a popular audience. With clarity and eloquence, Dr. Powell covers all aspects of this charismatic and endangered species, including life history, reproduction, social structure, size, weight, foraging habits, and physiology. Stunning photographs accompany the text. Dr. Powell also describes "A Year in the Life of a Florida Manatee," the manatees' place in mythology, current research around the world, threats to manatees and their habitat, and what may keep them from becoming extinct.

"We must remain focused on the impacts of future threats to manatee survival, such as habitat loss, decreasing natural and artificial warm water flow, evolving boating activity, and loss of seagrass beds combined with the effects of catastrophic events such as severe cold and red tide," Dr. Powell says.

Dr. Powell's fascination with manatees began on a childhood fishing trip with his father in the headwaters of Florida's Crystal River.

"We were sitting there very quietly when a slight movement and swirl on the surface of the water caught my father's attentionâ¦ What I saw has stuck with me for some 40-odd years. I can still see the image vividly in my mind's eye. Below our little boat was a monster of gigantic proportions, its ghostly gray shape slowly and silently gliding between the cathedrals of waterweedsâ¦"

Manatees would eventually lead him to such diverse regions as Belize, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau. As Wildlife Trust's Director for Aquatic Conservation, Dr. Powell is a leading expert and advocate for manatee conservation worldwide.

Manatees is available at local and on-line bookstores, or through its publisher at voyageurpress.com.

To interview Dr. Powell, please contact

W (941) 388-4441, x215

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http://www.wildlifetrust.org

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