Seven-year-old male manatee, Kai (pictured), was chosen to make the trip to Guadeloupe – an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea – along with Junior, his best friend, to be part of a conservation project
River Safari’s Kai and Junior will be the first two manatees in over a century to arrive in Guadeloupe’s Grand Cul-de-sac Marin, a 15,000ha protected bay.
They are part of a conservation project that aims to reintroduce Antillean manatees to the country through a breeding programme with a group of 15 manatees from various zoological institutions. The future offspring from this founding group of 15 will be reintroduced to the wild, eventually populating the Caribbean region.
