The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone ...

The Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund and Mubadala are launching a major new initiative to conserve the dugong and its seagrass habitats in the ...

By Carolyn Cowan Unprecedented numbers of emaciated dugongs have washed up dead along Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast over the past three years, prompting marine scientists to urgently investigate what’s ...

The herbivorous dugong was classed as a vulnerable species in 1982 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunters like Munsa in Bintan, a cluster of islands between Sumatra and ...

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 ...

Keeping tabs on the species’ populations is surprisingly hard. A new aerial effort tracks the marks they leave behind A dugong, also known as a sea cow, in a protected marine reserve in the ...