Marsh, Helene, Loates, Phillipa J., and Schramm, Luisa (2025) A Global Assessment of Dugong Status and Conservation Needs. External Commissioned Report. TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

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Abstract

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) contracted James Cook University to prepare a new edition of the 2002 publication: ‘Dugong: status report and action plans for countries and territories’. The new edition, which is titled ‘A global assessment of dugong status and conservation needs’, comprises eleven chapters, each written by the listed co-authors. The report has been edited by Helene Marsh, Philippa Loates and Luisa Schramm and reviewed by Abdelmenam Mohamed, Lauren Lopes, Yasmeen Tel Wala and Harris Wei-Khang. The report is arranged with an Executive Summary and 11 chapters as follows:

• This Executive Summary provides an overview of the project’s Key Findings.

• Chapter 1: Global Context provides background material that is relevant to all the regional chapters.

• Chapters 2-10: provide information for each of the following regions: East Africa (Chapter 2), Red Sea (Chapter 3), Arabian/Persian Gulf (Chapter 4), South Asia (Chapter 5), Continental Southeast Asia (Chapter 6), Maritime Southeast Asia (Chapter 7), East Asia (Chapter 8), Pacific Islands (Chapter 9) and Australia (Chapter 10). Each of these regional chapters has been co-authored with several regional experts.

• Chapter 11 summarizes the Key Learnings from this report.

Item ID:	86161
Item Type:	Report (External Commissioned Report)
ISBN:	978-3-937429-40-3
Keywords:	Global, Dugong, Status, conservation
Related URLs:	https://www.cms.int/dugong/en/ publicati... https://www.tropwater.com/reports-and-pu... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhsW0-d...
Copyright Information:	This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Australia license. You are free to copy, communicate and adapt this work, so long as you attribute James Cook University [TropWATER] and the authors.
Additional Information:	CMS Technical Series Publication No. 51, TropWATER report 25/72
Funders:	Government of Abu Dhabi - Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2025 21:01
FoR Codes:	41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410401 Conservation and biodiversity @ 80% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410407 Wildlife and habitat management @ 20%
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