Local residents suspect that illegal poaching activity could be behind the animal's death. ...

Only three people had seen one in the past five years. This has led the researchers to declare the dugong functionally extinct - meaning "it is no longer viable... to sustain itself", Heidi Ma ...

Fishermen in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, rescued and released a dugong caught in their nets, highlighting growing local efforts in ...

Tamil Nadu is the first state in India to notify a Dugong Conservation Reserve in the Palk Bay region marking a ...

HONG KONG: The dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China’s southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said. Research by the ...

According to an update of the official extinction list, the dugong is almost wiped out in some parts of the world. Scientists have also sounded alarm over the loss of other marine creatures ...

THANJAVUR: A dugong, an endangered marine mammal, caught in a seine net in the early hours of Sunday near Adirampattinam was rescued and released back into the sea by fishermen. According to ...

Discover how local fishermen in Thanjavur rescued a giant dugong entangled in a fishing net, highlighting efforts to protect ...

A nearly eight-feet-long Dugong, a marine mammal commonly known as “sea cow”, which got entangled in a fisherman’s net near Keezathottam coastal village in neighbouring Thanjavur district ...

However, in 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed dugongs as critically endangered in East Africa, with only around 250 individuals remaining in the region.