Missing your manatee friends? They miss you too! The Manatee Viewing Center is scheduled to reopen in November. In the meantime, you can gear up with manatee merch at our online store. Every dollar you spend helps the center facilitate crucial manatee research and rescue efforts. Shipping is handled by the MacDonald Training Center, which employs and trains developmentally disabled adults. So you can feel extra good as you decide…
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Hey manatees, come on in – the water’s fine!
Deliveries don’t get much more special than this: We’re talking about a day in December when three small moving trucks showed up at the doorstep of Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center, joined by an eager group of people in water shoes. The trucks’ rear doors rattled open and inside each was a large, passive creature with gray skin and scars on its body. They were doing just fine – great, in fact. The animals’ handlers doused them continuously with water.…
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Habitat trail at the Manatee Viewing Center
The trail in environmental stewardship that the Manatee Viewing Center has blazed since 1986 is one that you can enjoy at ground-level. November 1 marks the opening of the center’s coastal habitat trail, a mulched path that winds eight-tenths of a mile through saltern, coastal high marsh and coastal strand habitats. Like the MVC, it’s free to the public and showcases a variety of plant and animal life. And like…
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How fitting is it that TECO (and you) are back at free, fun EcoFest this year again?
As TECO team members descend this Sunday, April 22, on EcoFest – the Tampa Earth Day celebration you just can’t miss – they’ll be at Lowry Park in Tampa and very near some other members of the community they may see again in a few months’ time. In a twist you maybe didn’t see coming, those members of the community are rescued manatees undergoing rehabilitation at ZooTampa at Lowry Park. Each…
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Meet the heart(s) and soul(s) of the Manatee Viewing Center: its docents, hosts and cashiers
Howard Fulwood – beloved host at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center with a 66-year connection to Tampa Electric as an employee and in retirement – died this past Easter Sunday at age 88. In honor of his legacy, we’re re-running the post below that appeared on our intranet in 2014: For the tens of thousands of people who visit the Manatee Viewing Center each month during its open season, it’s…
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