Article 513PR ‘A manatee is worth more alive’: the mission to save Africa’s sea mammals

‘A manatee is worth more alive’: the mission to save Africa’s sea mammals

by
Annika Hammerschlag
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Once branded 'rogue animals', the elusive creatures were on the brink of extinction, but hope is rising for their survival

It is a blistering day in the Senegalese coastal town of Joal and a group of biologists are standing in a motorised dugout canoe, scanning the cyan waters for floating manatee dung.

Suddenly, a bobbing brown mass appears in the distance.

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