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1. • Some of the few remaining Okinawa dugongs

     • Dugongs are shy creatures, living out their quiet lives in shallow seagrass beds around the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The waters surrounding the Japanese island of Okinawa are home to some of the few remaining Okinawa dugongs, rare, genetically isolated and critically endangered members of the dugong species.
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     Fighting to Protect the Dugongs of Japan’s Henoko Bay

2. www.lifegate.com › dugong-okinawa-japanWhy Okinawa dugongs are at risk – and how the US is involved

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   Feb 8, 2016 · The calm waters surrounding Okinawa Island, Japan, are home to this rare mammal species, which is particularly dear to the Japanese population. The Okinawa dugong is now threatened by a project for the construction of an American military base in their habitat.

3. www.asahi.com › ajw › articlesDugongs likely inhabit broad areas around Ryukyu Islands

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   May 10, 2024 · The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa...

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5. www.nature.com › articles › s41598/022/09992-2Trajectory to local extinction of an isolated dugong ... - Nature

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   Apr 12, 2022 · In this study, we reconstruct the declining history of a small, isolated population of dugongs in Okinawa for over 125 years. The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal inhabiting tropical ...

6. www.nature.com › articles › s41598/024/58674-8Fecal DNA analysis coupled with the sighting records re ...

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   Apr 4, 2024 · There have been no confirmed cases of dugong inhabitation since 2019, when the dead adult female was found in Nakijin Village on the northwestern of Okinawa Island (Fig. 1).

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7. www.stripes.com › branches › marine_corpsNo dugongs found near Marine base on Okinawa after 3-year ...

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   Jun 3, 2024 · CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Japanese government is ending its search for the dugong, an endangered cousin of the manatee, in waters off Okinawa where a controversial Marine Corps runway is...

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   Some researchers also believe that there is a chance for an influx of individuals from the Philippines riding the Kuroshio Current up to Okinawa. DNA testing showed that there are correlations between dugong subpopulations of these two places (Ozawa et al., Reference Ozawa, Yoshihama, Gishitomi, Watanabe, Ichikawa, Sato, Watanabe, Takano ...

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   Are dugongs declining in Okinawa?

   • In this study, we reconstruct the declining history of a small, isolated population of dugongs in Okinawa for over 125 years. The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal inhabiting tropical seagrass meadows for feeding grounds.

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   Do dugong live on Ryukyu island?

   • (Asahi Shimbun file photo) The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture, researchers say. The assessment was primarily based on DNA analysis of fecal matter, a relatively new field of study.

   Dugongs likely inhabit broad areas around Ryukyu Islands

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   Where do dugongs live?

   • That, combined with the geographical distribution of 66 dugong sightings and 26 feeding trails confirmed between 2010 and 2023, led the researchers to conclude that dugongs likely inhabit broad marine areas around the main Okinawa island as well as the Miyako Islands and Yaeyama Islands.

   Dugongs likely inhabit broad areas around Ryukyu Islands

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   When was the Okinawa Dugong discovered?

   • The Okinawa dugong has been reported since, at least, the seventeenth century 13. From the 17th to nineteenth centuries, dugongs were hunted as a tax to the Ryukyu Dynasty in the Yaeyama Islands—the southernmost islands in the Ryukyus—in a period when hunting was sustainable and maintained the dugong population (Fig. 1 b).

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   How many dugongs died on Okinawa Island?

   • From 1979 to 2004, a local newspaper reported that 14 dugongs were found dead on Okinawa Island: seven were caught in gill or fixed nets (another four were released alive or bred in an aquarium), and seven dead bodies drifted ashore (Fig. 2 e, Supplementary Table 1, Supplementary Data).

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   Are dugongs extinct?

   • In the Philippines, dugong populations are fragmented and, in Taiwan, they have become locally extinct 9. A small population of dugongs had been found since the late 20th century in the coastal waters of Okinawa Island, part of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan—in the northern part of the dugong distribution in the western Pacific— 10.

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10. www.pref.okinawa.jp › _res › projectsJFY 2020 Dugong Protection Measure Project （Report Summary ...

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    Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) in March of 2017 categorized dugongs as Class IA, critically endangered species that has a high risk to be extinct in the wild. An adult female dugong was found dead in Nakijin, Okinawa in March 2019. With the dugong population in Japan already at risk, the death of a mature