According to a DMCR survey, Thailand had 273 dugongs in its surrounding waters in 2022, mostly living along the west coast in the Andaman Sea. Based on recorded deaths alone, Thailand may have since ...

An impassioned call for collective action to tackle the conservation crisis threatening seagrass and dugongs has been issued.

The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) announced that almost 40% of dugongs found stranded last year were underweight due to a lack of seagrass, their primary food source.DMCR and World ...

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

The case of Si Tenang the baby dugong captured national attention in 1999. Atan Hussin (Pak Atan), a fisherman in southern Johor, had accidentally caught a baby dugong in his net. Finding that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Malaysia and Thailand. Despite resembling whales, dolphins and porpoises, dugongs are believed to be more closely related to elephants. These herbivores are typically sighted in estuaries and ...

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 ...