The gentle marine mammal hasn't been seen in the habitat near southern China since at least 2008.
also worked with a team of volunteers and interviewed 788 local fishermen. Only 5% of those surveyed reported ever having seen a dugong in the wild, and only threeyears, though those reported sightings couldn’t be verified.
The scientists also noted that tworecent sightings occurred in an area lacking the seagrass beds necessary to support dugongs“We acknowledge the possibility that a few surviving dugongs in Chinese coastal waters might have been undetected by respondents,” wrote the researchers.
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