In 2023, the remote Great Barrier Reef coast north of Mission Beach was home to 6838 dugongs. Calves made up 9.1 per cent of ...

A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting ...

Local wildlife experts identified one of the animals as Mawar, or Mawardi, a male dugong regularly seen around Mali Beach, WWF-Indonesia said. The other dugongs — a baby and an adult female — had not ...

Australia has been identified as a global sanctuary for dugongs, following a major international report warning species are ...

Proposed Dugong Conservation Centre in Thanjavur raises concerns over construction in No-Development Zone under CRZ ...

The dugong, a gentle giant of the ocean, is now "functionally extinct" in China, a new study said Wednesday. There have been no records of dugongs in China's waters since 2008, researchers from the ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

STORY: The stranded dugong, which is an endangered mammal, had several deep scratches and cuts on its body which were bleeding. The Trang Province villagers who found the dugong, also known as a sea ...

Pour one out for the dugong today—the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammal has hit a worrying new benchmark of species decline. Scientists have declared the animal “functionally extinct” in part of ...