Sadly, its habitat close to shore in China left it vulnerable to hunters in the 20th Century who sought the animal for its skin, bones and meat. After a notable decline in population, dugongs were ...

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

All dugongs have smooth skin with sparse hair. HABITAT: Mostly found in calm, shallow marine coastal waters and confined mainly to sea-grass beds, dugongs also frequent deeper waters further offshore, ...

The waters around Japan’s southwestern Nansei Islands, much part of which lie in Okinawa Prefecture, are believed to demarcate the northern limit of the dugong’s habitat areas in the Pacific.

A shocking discovery was made on one of the beaches in Phuket, a famous Thai island. Residents of the Baan Bang Rong village ...

“The endangered dugong species is currently facing a number of threats due to habitat loss and human-related activities such as increased marine activity, being caught in discarded fishing ...

The Fisheries Department, in a previous statement, said the Mersing islands were where dugongs were often found, but due to threats to their habitat, their population was shrinking. According to ...

Research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences said fishing, ship strikes and human-caused habitat loss have seen the number of dugongs decrease rapidly ...

Mozambique has launched an extensive survey using rare satellite tagging technology in Bazaruto Archipelago National Park in a bid to track dugong movements and safeguard their habitat.

The IDCC is to be established under the TN-SHORE (Tamil Nadu Sustainably Harnessing Ocean Resources and Blue Economy) initiative to conserve the “endangered” Dugong species — a marine mammal also ...