Impressive And Impactful —
Adopt-A-Manatee® For Mother’s Day
For further information, contact:
Janice Nearing,
Director of Public Relations
Save the Manatee Club
Phone: (407) 539-0990
E-mail: jnearing@savethemanatee.org
For Immediate Release
Note: A high resolution jpeg (300 dpi) of a manatee image, as well as a photo of Suzy Russell, are available upon request.
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| Suzy Russell shows off her certificate for her adopted manatee, Dana. (Photo by Bruce Russell.) |
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As people ponder what to get for Mother’s Day this year, Save the Manatee Club is recommending manatee gift adoptions as a thoughtful way to please moms and also help Florida’s endangered marine mammals.
“We are perpetually faced with numerous important environmental and political problems that have the potential to negatively affect manatees and their habitat,” says Patrick Rose, Aquatic Biologist and Executive Director of Save the Manatee Club. “Manatee adoptions help tremendously to fund manatee rescue, rehabilitation, and release efforts; research; education and public awareness projects; conservation work to protect manatees and their habitat; and programs in the United States, Central and South America, the Wider Caribbean, and West Africa.”
A gift adoption from Save the Manatee Club, which also includes Club membership, costs $25 – a little over $2 a month. Adoptions are tax-deductible, and include a color photo, biography, and adoption certificate of a real endangered manatee living in Florida. Photos of each of the 33 manatees up for adoption can be viewed on the Club’s website at http://www.savethemanatee.org/adoptees.htm. Also included with the gift adoption is a membership handbook filled with photos, facts, and information, plus subscriptions to the Club’s official quarterly newsletter, The Manatee Zone, and the bi-monthly e-newsletter, Paddle Tales. Shipping is free within the United States. For $35, the gift adoption package also includes the Club’s new official 30th Anniversary T-shirt, commemorating three important decades of protecting manatees.
“It is essential that we continue to meet head-on all the challenges to the manatee’s long-term survival,” explains Rose. Support from the public will keep us moving forward in our mission to make a positive difference in the lives of the remarkable manatees.”
Save the Manatee Club, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, began its conservation work back in 1981 when it was established by singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, and former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham.
Stephanie Peck, a nature-lover and manatee enthusiast from Georgia, decided last year to give a Mother’s Day gift adoption to her mom, Suzy Russell, also from Georgia. “I chose Dana from the Club’s Blue Spring adoption program because it’s my sister’s name,” said Stephanie. “I thought framing the adoption certificate and photo would make a great, memorable gift for my mother.”
For more information about manatees and to adopt one for Mother’s Day – contact Save the Manatee Club at 500 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland, FL 32751, call 1-800-432-JOIN (5646), or click here to get more information online.
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