Okinawa Environmental Justice Project

日本語は下にあります. In April this year, the article " Trajectory to local extinction of an isolated dugong population near Okinawa Island " was published in Scientific Reports. The article is a revised version of the article " Local extinction of an isolated dugong population near Okinawa Island ," submitted to Scientific Reports and uploaded to the Research Square site for comments in April 2021. Five Japanese scholars wrote it, and four of them have a close relationship with the construction of a U.S. military base at Henoko-Oura Bay.  While I appreciate that the authors have incorporated into the revised version the references that I had suggested for inclusion in my comments on the original version, I find that the revised version is still peculiar in many respects.  So, like I did with their original article , I have submitted my comments on the revised version to Scientific Reports.  Let's see how Scientific Reports and the authors react to my comments. Hideki Yos...