On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, the Turtle Conservation and Education Center (TCEC) team received information from the Denpasar BPSPL (Sea Water Resources Monitoring Agency) located on the Watu Jimbar beach, Sanur, Denpasar. Named Mr. Made Kelet with a female gender with a body length of 253 cm and a body circumference of 174 cm when it was found that the stranded mammal was in a rotten condition at 10.00 local time, the handling was carried out together with the BKSDA (Natural Resources Conservation Center), the Marine Police of the Regional Police Bali is an animal burial with a distance of 15 cm from the beach, the process is completed at 12.00 local time.
Dugongs or Dugongs are marine mammals from the Sirenia family or dugong sea cows, many of which are found in eastern Indonesia and are able to reach the age of 22 to 25 years, dugongs are not fish, they are marine mammals that breastfeed their children, the only animal representing the Dugongidae family
Dugongs are the only herbivorous marine mammals , plant eaters and live in fresh sea waters with a certain temperature. Dugongs are very dependent on available seaweed so that the distribution of these animals is limited to the coast where they were born. These animals need wide ranges, shallow and calm waters, such as in bays and mangroves. The muzzle of this animal is facing downwards so that it can touch the seaweed that grows on the bottom of the water. Habitats for dugongs include coastal areas, shallow to moderately deep, warm waters (minimum 15-17 °C with behavioral thermoregulation), seagrass beds that support tropical and tropical seagrass species, especially low fiber species. Dugongs show great variability in movement and migration patterns, depending on the region and the effect of seasonal temperature or rainfall on the ecosystem.
Threats to dugongs vary: unintentional catching of fishing gear, legal (customary sanctions) and illegal hunting, boat activities, habitat damage due to conversion caused by human activities, threats to seagrass beds due to reclamation and coastal dredging, chemical pollution and environmental climate change
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