Rescuing the Amazon’s Baby Manatees, Iquitos, Peru
Perhaps you have seen one of these lovely manatees along Florida’s waterways, its back scarred and pitted by a close encounter with a boat propeller; but at least US Federal Law protects them, and they cannot be hunted. In Peru’s Upper Amazon, their cousins, the freshwater Amazon Manatees, face those risks and more — they are being hunted to extinction for food by their only significant enemy — man. A partnership between the Association for the Conservation of Amazonian…