An ABC Television report on Thursday showed dugong and sea turtle species in the Torres Strait, north of Queensland, being killed for their meat. The footage by former IT entrepreneur and now ...

WHEN a Far Northern father of eight hit upon hard times, he turned to importing drugs in a very unusual way. A father of eight, Charles Neville Aniba was struggling financially so he turned to drugs ...

AS IF coral bleaching wasn’t a big enough threat, some of the Reef’s natural resources are being plundered as the rules are stretched. Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg is being lobbied by ...

Legend has it that lonely sailors mistook them for beautiful, mythical mermaids. But as it turns out, the muse behind these beguiling sea nymphs was instead the dugong – a rather ungainly, gentle and ...

Though found in relative abundance in parts of northern Australia, the only known viable dugong population in East Africa calls the waters around the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park in Mozambique ...

For much of 2019, Thailand’s biggest internet celebrity was an aquatic mammal with a nose resembling a vacuum cleaner nozzle. Marium the infant dugong, from her dolphin-like tail to her stubby snout, ...

Takuma Higashionna looks across the blue waters of Oura Bay towards Camp Schwab in Okinawa on July 23, 2015. Higashionna, who has memories of swimming with the dugong, is against plans to fill in a ...