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

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

The dugong is a unique character of the sea. Weighing in at almost half a tonne, it is the only vegetarian marine mammal. Similar in appearance and behaviour to the manatee, but distinguished by ...

THANJAVUR: A dugong, an endangered marine mammal, caught in a seine net in the early hours of Sunday near Adirampattinam was ...

DESCRIPTION: The dugong is a marine mammal related to the manatee. It averages nine feet in length and weighs 550 to 1,000 pounds. The Okinawa dugong is slate gray to gray bronze in color and its tail ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The U.S. Department of Defense must reassess the impacts of a controversial new military base on Okinawa in order to protect the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine ...

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

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

The marine mammal was accidentally caught in the fishing net, but as the fishermen were sensitised by the forest department for the safe rescue procedures, the trapped dugong was rescued and ...

This as the country looks to save the mammals’ last viable population in the western Indian Ocean. The dugong is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three ...