An Aboriginal spokesman is calling for Indigenous people to have greater input into how dugong hunting is managed in far north Queensland. Five dugongs have been found dead in nets off the far north ...
Authorities say they have stepped up patrols on illegal dugong hunting in far north Queensland. Five dugongs have been found dead in nets off far north Queensland over the past three months including ...
The declaration comes as three federal ministers commit to talk to indigenous rangers and the Queensland state government to spearhead moves that could see more “no take’’ zones introduced in a bid to ...
The real threats to dugongs and turtles – climate change and marine debris – are not being addressed. RECENT CALLS FOR a ban on legal traditional hunting of dugongs and marine turtles imply that ...
Jon Altman receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Environmental Research Program. He is a director of Karrkad-Kanjdji Limited. Seán Kerins receives funding from The ...
A FACEBOOK photo of a smiling young woman holding an orphaned dugong calf has sparked up renewed debate on indigenous hunting practices. The image, sent to the Cairns Post before being deleted, shows ...
A station at Newry Island, about an hour north of Mackay, processed the sea mammals into the first half of the 20th century. The location was a dugong hotspot with its abundance of seagrass meadows. A ...
Recent reports of dead dugongs washing up in Sri Lanka have shone a spotlight on stalled efforts to conserve the increasingly rare and threatened sea mammal. The main threats to dugongs are hunting ...
Legend has it that lonely sailors mistook them for beautiful, mythical mermaids. But as it turns out, the muse behind these beguiling sea nymphs was instead the dugong – a rather ungainly, gentle and ...
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