Dugong Extinction Articles vs My Comments and Governor Tamaki's Disapproval of Seafloor Reinforcement Work
My comments on the article "Trajectory to local extinction of an isolated dugong population near Okinawa Island" can now be read in the comment section below the article on the Scientific Reports website. I am glad and thankful that Scientific Reports reviewed and decided to upload my comments on its website. (I posted a pdf version of my comments below.) The article is the revised version of the original article "Local extinction of an isolated dugong population near Okinawa Island" by the same authors. I submitted comments on the original article as well. Three of the five authors of the article are members of the Environmental Monitoring Committee set up by the Ministry of Defense for the base construction project at Henoko-Oura Bay. The main argument of their articles is that the Okinawa dugong is extinct. However, the revised version uses a more careful expression "the Okinawa dugong is near-extinct or extinct." The extinction articles and Gove...