For many Floridians and visitors from out of town, winter is the best time to be here. The weather is cool and dry, hotels are packed, parades draw huge crowds and local attractions like Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center welcome people from around the world. But for one variety of area resident, winter can be a death sentence. A reported 166 manatees died from the start of the year through…
Environment For Home
(Sara)solo and in groups, visitors of all kinds love TECO’s commitment to the environment
Among the VIPs who have come to the Manatee Viewing Center and the adjacent Florida Conservation and Technology Center over the past week, one of them feels so comfortable there he’s going to stay. No, he’s not among the Hillsborough County Commissioners who visited the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center (SYCC) at the Florida Conservation and Technology Center (FCTC) on Jan. 26. Commissioners Sandra Murman, Stacy White and Pat Kemp and…
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Community Environment For Home
Close encounters of the best kind as Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center welcomes six rehabilitated manatees back into the wild
Family sedans, minivans, SUVs and cars from all across America and Canada – hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center each year in vehicles of all kinds. A handful of visitors, meanwhile, come to the center in moving vans: manatees. On Jan. 28 and 29 they arrived again, the latest in what’s become an annual ritual that sees rehabilitated manatees released into the wild to…
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