WWF casts a wide net to save dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay
Mar 30, 2022, 3:19 pm157 pts
In 2017, a dugong washed ashore on a beach north of Townsville, Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef. The dead animal had scratch marks on its belly and back, and there were also cuts around its fluked tail. Experts said the dugong, which is a protected species in Australia, had probably gotten caught in a…

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