“Marium the Mermaid” won the POY77 Award of Excellence under the science & natural history category at a photo contest held by Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Marium, an orphaned baby dugong found on the Krabi shore in April, will remain for at least six more months in the care of a dugong nursery on Koh Libong in Trang, the province that is presumed to have been its original habitat.