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Sep 22, 2022 · The Persian Gulf has the second-largest dugong population in the world. It is home to around 5,800 to 7,300 of them. Why is India getting a dugong reserve? The sea cows are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972. According to a report by DownToEarth, dugongs consume up to 40 kg of seagrass in a day. With the rise ...
- Conserving Seagrass to Protect The Dugong
- Reserve Status to Help Reduce The Threat of Trawling
- Seagrass Unexpectedly Found on The West Coast
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a herbivorous marine mammal and it feeds exclusively on seagrass. It can eat up to 40 kg of seagrass every day, making the plant crucial to the survival of the animal. Other than supporting dugongs, seagrass beds along the continental shelf play a vital role in protecting the fragile marine biodiversity of the Gulf of M...
According to Sunderrajan, the destructive practice of bottom trawlingto catch fish in shallow waters has caused large scale depletion of seagrass meadows in the region. The trawling has also adversely affected small-scale fish workers who depended on the fishery resources associated with seagrasses. Additionally, the slow-moving dugongs regularly b...
In the last week of December 2021, tourists and fish workers active on Kerala’s famous tourism destination Kovalam beach saw large-scale washing up of a particular kind of grass, unfamiliar to the western coast until then. Strangely, the livestock on the beach refused to eat them. Somebody alerted the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries at ...
Sep 7, 2021 · — Supriya Sahu IAS (@supriyasahuias) September 3, 2021. Dr. Anant Pande, from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and Project Scientist coordinating the CAMPA-Dugong Recovery Project, told the indianexpress.com: “We have been surveying the area and currently our rough estimates show that there are about 150 to 200 dugongs in the area ...
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Jun 17, 2024 · In India, dugong occupancy has declined substantially from Indian ... there were visible changes in the suitable habitats between the seasons. ... (2021–23) CAMPA-Recovery of dugongs and their ...
Sep 21, 2022 · Dugongs are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 as their population was on the decline due to habitat loss. There were only about 240 such Dugongs estimated to be present in the country and a majority of them was found on the Palk Bay area, the release said.
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Sep 21, 2022 · The government of India has officially announced the establishment of a Dugong Conservation Reserve. The reserve is the first initiative of its kind in India and will cover the 448.34 Km² of coastal waters in Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu. Dugongs are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
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Dugong distribution and occupancy are dependent upon various biological (such as seagrass availability 7,18), environmental (sea surface temperature 19; turbidity, sea state 20) and topographic (depth 21 parameters). In India, dugong occupancy has declined substantially from Indian territorial waters (over 85% in some parts 22).
