In 2021, Florida officials began trucking 20,000 pounds of lettuce a week to starving manatees in the Indian River Lagoon, a first-ever bid to halt a record die-off

Wildlife officials were seen dumping truckloads of lettuce into the water. In Florida during the winter of 2021–22, state and federal authorities launched an emergency effort to save one of the state’s most cherished marine mammals.

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