Can you hunt dugong

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Compliments and complaints. Topics: Public interest disclosures. Office operating hours. Topics: Research stations and facilities. Was this article helpful? Yes No. Both the Commonwealth and the States have the power to regulate the killing of dugongs to ensure its sustainability. In addition, the States can regulate hunting to ensure it is conducted humanely. Yet these powers have not been exercised in a meaningful way.

Since native title rights do not extend to commercial activities, serious allegations of a substantial black market in dugong meat from the Torres Strait Islands to Islanders living on mainland Australia concerning.

Given the remoteness of the Torres Strait, adequate law enforcement in relation to dugong hunting is difficult to maintain. Much of the laissez-faire dugong management in Australia has been based on the deeply-rooted principle that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples know best and that their practices are sustainable. It is time however to set aside romanticised beliefs of Indigenous people as good custodians of the land merely by virtue of their race or ancestry.

Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples all over the world have exploited their environment, sometimes causing mass extinctions. People are people, and eat what they can, when they can.

It is the history of humanity.