Today, in his mid-70s, Munsa is known to people in his village as the last of the community’s dugong hunters. At his home on Air Glubi Island, Bintan, Munsa shows a spear used to hunt dugongs in ...

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

Only three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the past five years. Known as the ocean's most gentle giant, the dugong's slow, relaxed behaviour is ...

It is the only the strictly marine herbivorous mammal, feeding on seagrass near the coastal line, which make it highly vulnerable to human development and hunting. The dugong has been hunted for ...