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 ...

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 on Wednesday. Research by the ...

The dugong, a gentle marine mammal, has officially been declared extinct in China, a study has found. In findings published by the Zoological Society of London in the journal Royal Society Open ...

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 ...

Australia remains the best place in the world for dugongs to survive. This one was photographed off the coast of Western ...

Conservationists in Thailand are restoring seagrass after dugong numbers dropped sharply due to habitat damage and declining food sources.

WWF is working in the waters off Tanzania in an attempt to protect one of the world’s most threatened marine mammals. Mafia Island, Tanzania – WWF has initiated a dugong conservation programme in the ...

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