Protections Removed: Save Manatees Now

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Endangered Species Act Rolled Back: Protect Manatees this Earth Month

Fewer than 700 Puerto Rican Antillean manatees remain, threatened by boat strikes, entanglement, habitat loss, and illegal hunting. Now, the Endangered Species Act has been rolled back over the Gulf of Mexico, stripping protections from all oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico permanently, and putting manatees at even more risk. Legal experts are calling it the broadest exemption in the law's history.

There’s still time to save them from extinction. With your help, we’re protecting manatees in four crucial ways:

  1. Rehabilitating injured and underweight manatees

  2. Bottle feeding orphaned baby manatees
  3. Releasing rehabilitated manatees back into the wild
  4. Tracking manatees to gather information essential to their long-term conservation

Your gift helps provide the food, veterinary care, and research needed to save the future of this endangered species. Donate now.

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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.

Together, here’s what we’ve accomplished so far: 

  • $1 Billion+ in critical aid delivered
  • 895 communities served in 121 countries last year
  • 76,000+ pets spayed/neutered
  • 10.5 billion bees helped
  • 140 relief trucks deployed after Hurricanes Helene & Milton
  • 179,000+ biodiversity records added to global science databases
  • 214 shelters rebuilt by 6,000+ volunteers
  • 20,000+ shelter pets airlifted to safety

And we’re just getting started.

Giving with confidence

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.