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Conservationist demands end to dugong hunt as numbers plummet Brian Williams ENVIRONMENT REPORTER The Courier-Mail July 19, 2013 12:00AM A CONSERVATIONIST has called for an end to all indigenous hunting of dugongs until the species recovers as numbers dwindle dramatically. There are fears that the marine mammal population is in free fall as flood damage...

  THIS PHOTO WAS SENT BY COLIN RIDDELL TODAY.  COLIN AND BOB IRWIN HAVE SET UP THE ANIMAL COALITION TO CHANGE THE NATIVE TITLE ACT TO PREVENT THIS DREADFUL SLAUGHTER. AUSTRALIANS FOR ANIMALS IS A DEDICATED MEMBER OF THE COALITION  

Experts don’t expect increase in whale strandings this year Hannah Busch – GLADSTONE OBSERVER 9th Jul 2013 5:00 AM Updated: 9:29 AM A dead killer whale being towed by a Marine Parks vessel near Fraser Island. Andrew Chorley UPDATE: A pod of killer whales remainsl in an area near Little Woody and Fraser Island on Tuesday...

Cruel indigenous harvest continues on northern turtles and dugong Malcolm Holland Brian Williams The Courier-Mail July 01, 2013 12:01AM Dugongs are being subjected to a cruel harvest in northern Queensland. Picture: AFP/Torsten Blackwood Source: AFP LARGE numbers of north Queensland dugongs and turtles are being cruelly harvested during a grace period attached to new animal...

Opinion – Sue Arnold 24 June, 2013 There’s an awful lot of misinformation going round about this historic lawsuit.  So here’s the skinny ! It was Kevin Rudd who took the huge step of mounting the legal challenge against Japan in the International Court of Justice.  He needs to be acknowledged for his role in...

Opinion – Sue Arnold END THE TALK FESTS AND TAKE ACTION. A casual observer of the campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef must wonder whether Australians have become zombies. Listening to the endless talk fests, scientific opinions, reading the increasingly turgid media articles, the real issues are completely ignored in the morass of words....

Dolphins are not healers Dolphins are smart, sociable predators. They don’t belong in captivity and they shouldn’t be used to ‘cure’ the ill by Lori Marino 3,100 words Read later or Kindle An autistic child swims with a dolphin. ‘The dolphin smile is nature’s greatest deception,’ said Ric O’Barry, who trained the dolphins in the...