For the Sake of Okinawa Dugongs: The Kasuya-Abe Document

from Okinawa Outreach blog

For the Sake of Okinawa Dugongs: The Kasuya-Abe Document now available on the internet

We at Okinawa Outreach are excited to present a document “Building a Futenma Air Station Replacement Facility at Cape Henoko and Its Impacts on Japan’s Dugong Population” written by Dr. Toshio Kasuya and Dr. Mariko Abe (Click here to see the document). Dr. Kasuya is one of the foremost experts on marine mammals in Japan and Dr. Abe is a leading expert on coral biology. Both of them have conducted research in the area of Henoko and Oura Bay.


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The Kayusa-Abe document is a scientific rebuttal against the Okinawa Defense Bureau’s assessment of impacts on the endangered marine mammal dugong of the construction and operations of a US military base in Henoko and Oura Bay in Okinawa.