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The dugong, a marine mammal with smooth, dark gray or bronze skin, a fluked tail and downturned muzzle, lives in seagrass beds in the shallow coastal waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. The ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

According to a DMCR survey, Thailand had 273 dugongs in its surrounding waters in 2022, mostly living along the west coast in the Andaman Sea. Based on recorded deaths alone, Thailand may have since ...

A dead dugong was discovered in Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental, prompting an investigation into its cause of death and ...

Chalermchai Sri-on has called for urgent and collective action to address the ongoing seagrass and dugong conservation crisis ...

Ocean warming threatens marine life and ecosystems, endangering corals, turtles, penguins, clownfish, and whales. Urgent ...

one of the fishermen could be heard speaking soothingly to the dugong to keep it calm like he was speaking to a child. Finally when the net was cleared, the man could be heard asking the animal to ...

The case of Si Tenang the baby dugong captured national attention in 1999. Atan Hussin (Pak Atan), a fisherman in southern Johor, had accidentally caught a baby dugong in his net. Finding that it ...