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Endangered dugong rescued
Formoso, Celeste Anna (Concept & Information Group, Inc., 2023-12-01)
A sea cow or dugong was found trapped in a fish pen in Barangay Bancao-Bancao, Puerto Princesa City on Thursday morning. The endangered and rare creature, stuck for over eight hours, was successfully rescued and returned to deeper waters by a team comprising local residents, the Philippine Coast Guard and specialists from the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines.
Saving the mysterious sea cows
Mayuga, Jonathan (Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc., 2022-04-24)
Known locally as “dugong” (Dugong dugon), this sea cow is a large, charismatic and gentle creature of the sea that is rarely seen nowadays in coastal and marine areas where they used to thrive. Shy as it is, very little is known about this very elusive marine mammal—its population and distribution, how and where it breeds or congregates, or where and how it raise its young. Fortunately, as a species, dugong is surviving the numerous human-induced threats, unlike its cousin, the Steller’s sea cow that lived off the coast of western North America, which became extinct in the 18th century mainly due to hunting.