Experts are calling for further research and the involvement of local communities in future conservation plans. Incredible ...

Boaters off Indonesia saw a baby dugong swimming and seemingly playing with two adult dugongs in a first-of-its-kind sighting for the area. Screengrab from Kabola Fishermen’s Communication Forum/Engky ...

HCM CITY: The dugong (sea cow) population on HCM City’s Con Dao Island, the only known habitat of the species in Vietnam, is facing an alarming decline and could disappear entirely without timely ...

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 ...

For much of 2019, Thailand’s biggest internet celebrity was an aquatic mammal with a nose resembling a vacuum cleaner nozzle. Marium the infant dugong, from her dolphin-like tail to her stubby snout, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An 8-month-old dugong nurtured by marine experts after it was found lost near a beach in southern Thailand has died of what biologists believe was a combination of shock and ingesting ...

The handing over of an accidentally caught dugong by Tanzanian fishermen to local authorities and conservation groups shows that a campaign to raise awareness about the species is working. Mafia ...