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Coral reefs are being damaged by careless divers; lagoons that once teemed with tropical fish are now being polluted by suntan lotion; the beaches where sea turtles once laid their eggs are being taken over by sun-beds and volleyball nets; crocodiles and manatees that once cruised the coastal waters are now endangered species.
English speakers who used the charts read mar as mare `female horse,' which was later generalized to horse . Another possibility is that the origin was French golfe de la mer or latitude de la mer , French mer being quite close in sound to English mare , which was later generalized to horse . A third possibility is that the waters were populated by manatees, which might have been likened to horses, not too farfetched a suggestion when one considers that sailors are said to have imagined them to be mermaids.
Its protected wildlife includes crocodiles, manatees, and numerous species of birds.
Rare species of butterflies and delicate hummingbirds take to the air, and crocodiles and manatees still live in and around vast tracts of mangrove swamp in the south.