Japan: Will the U.S. military do right by the dugong?

Could a plan to build a 2.5-mile-long airfield in Okinawa, Japan, doom a rare manateelike species to extinction?

15 Dezember 2009

That's the assertion of more than 400 environmental organizations, which recently sent a letter to President Obama urging him to cancel the plans to expand Camp Schwab, a U.S. Marine Corps base on Okinawa island.

At issue is the Okinawa population of dugong (Dugong dugon), the closest living relative to the extinct Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)....

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