A three-meter female dugong weighing around 200 kilos was washed ashore in Barangay Boroc-boroc, Belison town on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Dugongs are marine mammal. Commonly known as “sea cows”, they graze peacefully on sea grasses in shallow coastal waters of the western Pacific and Indian oceans. According to Rocelia Campos, Development Management Officer II of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO)-Antique, they will conduct a necropsy to determine the cause of the mammal’s death.

'Dugong' washes ashore in Belison. (2022, October 21). Panay News, p. 6.