“I have been hunting dugongs since I was young ... home on Air Glubi Island and unfastens a 2.5-meter (8.2-foot) harpoon stored away in his kitchen. “I haven’t used this spear for ...

It is the only the strictly marine herbivorous mammal, feeding on seagrass near the coastal line, which make it highly vulnerable to human development and hunting. The dugong has been hunted for ...