Negotiating extirpation: On the political implications of declaring dugongs extinct in Okinawan waters
Marius Palz, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook · 2024
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Marius Palz examines a dugong extinction claim in Okinawan waters in a 2024 paper. In 2021, a preprint held that the local dugong stock had sunk below a viable count and should count as extinct. Feeding trails in several spots seemed to clash with that call.
Local green groups protested, and world dugong experts pushed back too. Three of the preprint's authors sat on a watch panel for a disputed military base build in prime dugong water. The animal's protected state and folk weight made its fate a political token. Palz argues that extinction talk can never be split from such settings. Caution in wording is part of the science.
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| CREATOR | Marius Palz, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook, Alison Dunn, Barry Brook |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |