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Traditional Owners of the Great Barrier Reef have co-existed with dugongs for more than 60,000 years. 8. The Dugong’s brain only weighs 300 grams of their 400kg!
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Aug 22, 2022 · Many dugongs occur along the remote coast (northern third of the Great Barrier Reef north of Cooktown), and populations appear stable. Current combined levels of mortality from all threats, as reported in the marine strandings database maintained by the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection/Queensland Parks and Wildlife, are thought to be unsustainable.
The Great Barrier Reef provides important feeding areas for the species; [34] this reef area houses a stable population of around 10,000, although the population concentration has shifted over time. Large bays facing north on the Queensland coast provide significant habitats for dugong, with the southernmost of these being Hervey Bay and Moreton Bay. [ 18 ]
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has listed dugongs as vulnerable to extinction on a global scale because the numbers of dugongs worldwide appear to have declined by at least 20% over the last 90 years (about three dugong generations). Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE April 2002 Photo: D. Yates
Sep 29, 2023 · Numbers of the manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs are steadily dropping in Australian waters around the Great Barrier Reef, per a new report based on 2022 aerial surveys. Among the animals ...
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Sep 27, 2023 · Dugong numbers are falling in coastal areas along the Great Barrier Reef and researchers warn floods and fishing pose an ongoing threat to the species. Key points: The east coast dugong population ...
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May 31, 2017 · The dugong, one of four species of sea cow in the order Sirenia, live throughout shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific. The world’s largest population resides in northern Australia , from Shark Bay ...
