All dugongs have smooth skin with sparse hair. HABITAT: Mostly found in calm, shallow marine coastal waters and confined mainly to sea-grass beds, dugongs also frequent deeper waters further offshore, ...

Kasetsart University's marine ecologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat has called for Thai people to preserve dugongs, saying that the population of the mammals has been dropping every year due to a decline ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government ... the northern limit of the dugong’s habitat areas in the Pacific. The dugong population ...

“The endangered dugong species is currently facing a ... as well as a decline of its critical natural habitat — underwater sea grass beds,” Thabit Al Abdessalaam, Director of Biodiversity ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have developed a new way to locate habitats of the elusive dugong, an endangered type of sea cow, by analyzing DNA left behind in the water from its skin and ...

The death of each representative of this species is a blow to the world's dugong population, whose numbers are declining due to habitat destruction ... of the island's natural heritage and ...

The main objectives of the agreement, which was signed on behalf of the UAE by Mohammed Kindi, Minister of Environment and Water, are to protect the dugongs and their habitats, to raise awareness ...