While some are willing to kill animals for their love for selfies, others are keeping them caged under inhumane conditions to earn some cash. New images of a dugong kept in an underwater cage in Indonesia recently found their way onto the internet. Kept as a tourist attraction by local fishermen, a group of divers found the mother dugong in chains, with scars on her body and wounds on her tail. The mammal had been separated from her calf which was being kept in a nearby enclosure. The cage was located near the remote island of Kokoya, off North Maluku. Shackled by the tail, the video here shows the dugong struggling to swim around the enclosed space, unable to meet her child or break free of her cage.

Thanks to the group's social media campaign - which included tweeting to Susi Pudjiasti, Indonesia's Minister for Marine Affairs and Fisheries - the authorities were alerted and the animals were released from their prison on March 14.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), dugongs - also known as sea cows - are mainly found grazing on sea grasses in shallow waters near the coastal areas of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.