SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The U.S. Department of Defense must reassess the impacts of a controversial new military base on Okinawa in order to protect the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine ...

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(CN) – The dugong once thrived along the shores of Okinawa, the smallest of Japan’s five main islands located about 400 miles south of the country’s mainland. A relative of the manatee, the dugong is ...

SAN FRANCISCO— American and Japanese conservation groups today argue their case in U.S. federal court to halt construction of a U.S. military airstrip in Okinawa. The U.S. base expansion would pave ...

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 ...

Australia's children are being enlisted in the fight to save dugongs from the multiple threats of coastal development, climate change, and environmental pollution, thanks to the creative mind of ...

Thailand’s dugongs are disappearing fast, reflecting an unfolding crisis in the region’s seagrass ecosystems. Seagrass beds on Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast that support one of the world’s most ...

A rare sighting of a dugong calf in Alor, Indonesia, has renewed focus on the health of the region’s seagrass ecosystem and the species’ fragile future. Conservationists say the presence of multiple ...