Tamil Nadu to set up India’s first Dugong Conservation Reserve

Tamil Nadu to set up India’s first Dugong Conservation Reserve

The State government in Assembly on Friday declared 500 sq.km of the biodiversity-rich waters in the Palk Bay, on the southeast coast of Tamil Nadu, as India’s first dugong conservation reserve. The reserve will span the northern part of the Palk Bay from Adiramapattinam to Amapattinam. Dugong or sea cow is an endangered marine mammal. […]

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