Help Protect Endangered Manatees this Holiday Season

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Your holiday gift helps save endangered manatees

Fewer than 700 Puerto Rican Antillean manatees remain, threatened by boat strikes, entanglement, habitat loss, and illegal hunting.

Taiku and Dakiti, two orphaned calves rescued near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, are now preparing to return to the wild after three years of rehabilitation. Taiku was just a few days old when she was found clinging to her mother’s body off Puerto Rico’s south coast. A jet ski had killed her mother—one casualty in a long list of threats facing the endangered Puerto Rican Antillean manatee.

Releases like theirs not only return individual manatees to the ocean but also provide vital data on behavior, habitat use, and ongoing threats—information essential for long-term conservation.

Your gift helps provide the food, veterinary care, tracking, and research needed to protect Taiku, Dakiti, and the future of this endangered species.

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Turn Compassion Into Action

By supporting Greater Good Charities, you help us fill critical gaps in times of crisis and beyond—responding to the interconnected needs of people, animals, and the environment. Instead of following traditional aid categories, we listen to communities and act quickly, delivering aid, expertise, and funding where it’s needed most. 

Your generosity makes it possible for us to show up soon after a disaster strikes and to stay as long as we’re needed, helping communities recover and thrive.  

Because of supporters like you, here’s what we’ve achieved so far: 

  • $1 Billion+ in critical aid delivered 
  • 650 communities served in 21 countries last year 
  • 66,000+ pets spayed/neutered 
  • 10.5 billion bees helped 
  • 140 relief trucks deployed after Hurricanes Helene & Milton 
  • 60,000+ biodiversity records added to global science databases 
  • 204 shelters rebuilt by 6,000+ volunteers 
  • 16,000+ shelter pets airlifted to safety  

And we’re just getting started. 

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Greater Good Charities has a Four-Star rating on Charity Navigator and a Platinum Seal on GuideStar for our dedication to transparency and real positive impact.

Greater Good Charities has ultimate authority and discretion with regard to the distribution of its funds. All expenditures made are consistent with the exempt purposes of Greater Good Charities.

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