The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) announced that almost 40% of dugongs found stranded last year were underweight due to a lack of seagrass, their primary food source.

She is based at the Marine and Coastal Resources Research Centre, overlooking the lower Andaman Sea. Here, once-thriving seagrass meadows have been disappearing, along with the dugongs that rely on ...

According to the Fisheries Department, the seagrass meadows around Pulau Sibu and Pulau Tinggi were important grazing areas for dugongs ... were still not safe to eat. "The ban on selling mussels ...

The sites have been chosen based on drone imagery and fall under the Dugong Conservation Reserve, Palk Bay. Seagrass is a major food source for Dugong also called as ‘Sea Cows’ — a ...

Dugongs are herbivorous marine mammals that inhabit warm coastal waters and primarily feed on seagrass. Qatar is home to the second-largest dugong population in the world after Australia ...

They called for measures to preserve seagrass beds, which serve as feeding grounds for the creatures. The dugong, regarded as the inspiration for ancient seafaring tales of mermaids, is a mammal ...