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 ...

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

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

According to a DMCR survey, Thailand had 273 dugongs in its surrounding waters in 2022, mostly living along the west coast in ...

Dugongs also do not have dorsal fins – animals with these fins on their backs, such as dolphins and sharks, are more easily spotted when they are in shallow waters. When dugongs surface to ...

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 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 ...

WWF Thailand reports that 40% of stranded dugongs are underweight due to a severe seagrass shortage, threatening their survival.

Dugongs, a member of the same animal order as three species of manatees, are a vulnerable species, most commonly found throughout Indonesia and Malaysia and along the northern coast of Australia ...

Officials from the Marine and Coastal Resources Department promptly brought it to Rajamangala Aquatic Animal Hospital in Trang province for treatment. The dugong measured 102 centimetres long ...

BANGKOK: A herd of 30 dugongs have been recorded in a video ... of seagrass and the spread of plastic waste to the sea that the animals were eating and subsequently dying. The department added ...