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UNEP-CMS Dugong Questionnaire has been deployed (550 interviews to date). Dugongs are sighted throughout the archipelago in most of the major island groups in Vanuatu. Seagrass distributed throughout Vanuatu in small pockets. The general perception is that the number of dugongs in not decreasing.
• Dugongs are considered vulnerable to extinction on the global scale. • Dugong is the only surviving member of the family Dugongidae, with its closest relative, Stellar’s sea-cow, hunted to extinction within 27 years of its discovery in the eighteenth century. • They have disappeared from several areas
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A. The Okinawa Dugong The dugong is a species of marine mammal resembling a manatee. See Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Hagel, 80 F. Supp. 3d 991,994 (N.D. Cal. 2015) (Okinawa Dugong III). Dugong populations are often small and isolated, and live only in saltwater. See generally 68 Fed. Reg. 70185 (Dec. 17, 2003). Dugongs have long lifespans ...
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Multiple citizens’ groups in Okinawa are actively involved in dugong con-servation, including Jugon hogo kikin (Dugong Conservation Fund), Dugong Campaign Center Okinawa, and Hokugen no jugon o mimamoru kai (Associa-tion to Protect Northernmost Dugongs).
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22 Dugong calls were detected in the middle of Oura Bay on February 11, 23, and 24, and on March 6, 9, 13, 25, and 29. Except for the detections made on March 6 and 25, all the other detections were made when no construction activities took place. See Okinawa Defense Bureau (May, 2020).
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ON THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DUGONGS (Dugong dugon) AND THEIR HABITATS THROUGHOUT THEIR RANGE Species Aspects Objective 1 – Reduce direct and indirect causes of dugong mortality Action Priority Level Time-scale Organizations Target 1.1 Identify, assess and evaluate the threats to dugong populations and develop
