*World Dugong Day is celebrated on 28th May, every year.*
✅Dugong (Dugong dugon) also called ‘Sea Cow’ is one of the four surviving species in the Order Sirenia and it is the only existing species of herbivorous mammal that lives exclusively in the sea including in India.
✅They are listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN *Red List* and are protected in India under *Schedule I* of the Wild (Life) Protection Act, 1972.
*step taken for conservation in india*
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change constituted a ‘Task Force for Conservation of Dugongs’ to look into issues related to conservation of dugongs and implementation of the ‘UNEP/CMS Dugong MoU’ in India.
