A rare sighting of Dugong, gentle giants of the seagrass ecosystem, pins hopes of population recovery in the Andaman Islands. The decade-long Dugong population recovery program of #MoEFCC through ...

As part of the second phase of a WWF dugong campaign in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, WWF is working with fishermen to protect the endangered marine mammal from being caught ...

A nearly seven-foot-long Dugong, a marine mammal commonly known as “sea cow”, which got entangled in the fishing net, was ...

“The first phase of these studies helped us obtain information about the abundance, distribution and the conservation status of dugongs in the UAE.” About 40 per cent of the world dugong ...

Kasetsart University's marine ecologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat has called for Thai people to preserve dugongs, saying that the population of the mammals has been dropping every year due to a decline ...

Prior to the memorandum, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) organised a two-day workshop here concerning the dugong conservation and management plan in East Indian Ocean and the Pacific ...

The dugong population in the region, however, has been on the decline since the Meiji Era (1868-1912) due to overhunting for their fatty meat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

What can be termed as a rare sighting, the team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have spotted a Dugong also known as sea cow feeding in Andaman waters. WII Director ...

Dugongs, gentle sea mammals, are classified as 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In a significant stride for marine conservation, Tamil Nadu became the ...

Jake Mason, of Shark Bay Eco Tours, said he's been lucky enough to spot the "cows of the sea" in their natural a habitat a ...