| Porthole 22 Apr 21

THE Qatar National Tourism Council is marking today’s Earth Day by celebrating the conservation of dugongs.

The animal is the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Qatar, with the country playing host to the second-largest population of dugongs globally.

Qatar’s continued efforts to study and protect the dugongs resulted in a rare sighting of a 840 last year – great success!

Fun fact: the collective nouns for dugongs are “herd” and “nutcluster”.