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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Cuddles at feeding time are one of many techniques vets in Thailand are using to raise an orphaned baby dugong named Mariam, and which have helped spread interest in ocean conservation in the process.

Recent reports of dead dugongs washing up in Sri Lanka have shone a spotlight on stalled efforts to conserve the increasingly rare and threatened sea mammal. The main threats to dugongs are hunting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legend has it that the inspiration for mermaids comes from an elusive sea mammal, so skittish that it flees at the first sight of a human. It’s an animal that features heavily in the folklore of ...

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 ...

These marine mammals are listed as a vulnerable species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Photo shared by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant ...

Two dugongs stranded earlier this week on an island in eastern Indonesia, but only one survived and returned to the sea. With conservation authorities unable to go to the site due to COVID-19 ...

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 ...