Save Manatees Forever Stamps, 2024 Booklet – Cards, Letters and Stamp Collecting

The Save Manatees stamp is being issued to create awareness about the threats posed to this beloved marine mammal. Human vigilance is crucial for the protection of the threatened West Indian manatee — both to minimize motorboat strikes and to maintain the aquatic plants on which it feeds.

The gentle West Indian manatee inhabits warm inland waterways in Florida and warm areas of the coastal Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. The Florida manatee, present year-round in the state’s rivers and springs, is one of two subspecies of West Indian manatee.

The stamp’s stylized artwork, predominantly aqua-colored, shows a manatee underwater, placidly lolling near the surface.