Sailors' friends under threat - turtles and dugongs

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9:14 PM Sat 21 May 2011 GMT

'Dugong and swimmer' . Click Here to view large photo

Sailors love to swim among them or just marvel from the bow, but the future of turtles and dugongs is anything but certain, according to conservationist New Zealander Peter Bethune. Bethune is best known for his arrest by the Japanese whalers after they rammed and sank his 'whale warrier' boat Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean. And it's Australia that comes in for his highest criticism. 'Even third-world countries manage their fisheries better than Australia,' he told a meeting in Cairns recently. As an example, he quoted the case of The Solomon Islands to Torres ...

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