Browsing by Scientific Name "Dugong dugon"

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    • Center of biodiversity 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 14, 2017, on page 14)
      The Philippines is the "center of the center" of marine fish diversity. We have 2,983 fish species compared to the other countries within the Coral Triangle, the center of marine biodiversity of the world.

    • Countries move to save sea cow population 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, March 30, 2017, on page B-8)
      As global sea cow (dugong) populations have been declining and the species classified as “vulnerable to extinction,” countries with surviving population of the animal need all the help they can get to help the elusive ...

    • Here be Dugongs 

      Yan, Gregg (The Daily Guardian, June 11, 2018, on page 6-7)
      With underwater photographer Danny Ocampo and expert guides from the Tagbanua tribe, we’re finally hoping for some downtime with a dugong. Dugongs are legendary sea creatures, having inspired lonely seamen’s ‘sightings’ ...

    • How Tagbanua tribesmen protect the 'mermaids' of Palawan 

      Yan, Gregg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 20, 2019, on page A16)
      Wearing fins from recycled plastic containers, tough Tagbanua tribesmen have become the protectors of the dugong, those gentle marine mammals that have become prey to poachers in Northern Palawan. The dugong (scientific ...

    • Marine mammals disturbed by warming waters 

      Acedo, Celia E. (Manila Bulletin, April 6, 2017, on page B-8)
      The warming of the oceans could also mean diminished reproductive success and increased susceptibility to diseases, according to a Silliman Journal article by Dr. Ma. Louella L. Dolar, a foremost authority on Philippine ...

    • Students pledge to protect sea cows 

      PN (Panay News, May 18, 2017, on page B10)
      Dugongs, also known as "sea cows" once grazed in thousands on the seabed off the Philippines. Presently, only a few can be seen and they can only survive in specially designated areas, where they are guaranteed food and ...

    • Students to help protect sea cows 

      (The Daily Guardian, May 16, 2017, on page B7)
      Dugongs, also known as “sea cows” once grazed in the thousands on the seabed off the Philippines. In order to raise awareness on the conservation and protection of Dugong (Dugong dugon), an awareness campaign was conducted ...

    • Vanishing dugongs 

      Tacio, Henrylito (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 26, 2013, on page 5)
      It was still five o’clock in the morning and yet Sonny Boy Aporbo was already awake. Immediately, he went to nearby Dahican Beach in Mati, Davao Oriental to do the usual morning ritual: to practice skimboarding. As he ...

    • Villagers mourn the death of dugong 

      Labiste, Ma. Diosa (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 25, 2003, on page A20)
      Three weeks after it was beached by waves, a baby dugong or sea cow (Dugong dugon) died due to diarrhea on Oct. 4, but its finders are mourning its loss, like it was one of their own. The dugong, a little over a meter long, ...