How did the biological review panel come to recommend the classification of threatened for the Florida manatee?
While the manatee population appears to have increased over the past few decades, threats still remain that could cause the population to decline significantly in the future. The manatee met two of the criteria for listing as threatened. Population model results indicated the potential for a future population decline of greater than 50% in the next 50 years. It also met the requirements of threatened because the number of mature individuals was estimated to be less than 2,500 and the population could decline by more than 20% in the next two generations.
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