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Dugong mother and calf photographed by research drone. Credit: Murdoch University
August 19, 2020
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Dr. Christophe Cleguer is on a mission to save the dugong. In doing so, he's saving a critical habitat for a host of other marine species. Dr. Cleguer has spent many career hours keeping a watchful eye on the dugong, the world's only herbivorous marine mammal which is found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. These enormous vegetarians spend their days casually munching seagrass meadows, keeping crucial ocean ecosystems in balance for a raft of other sea life.

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