"Alarming" Numbers Of Dead Green Turtles, Dugongs Wash Ashore Along Australian Coast

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The corpses of hundreds of dugongs have been washed up on shore Photo: ALAMY

Along hundreds of miles of beaches and on the shore of small islands, the rotting carcasses of green turtles and dugongs have are being washed ashore in alarming numbers - victims, scientists believe, of the after effects of the cyclone and floods that have afflicted this part of Australia in the past year.

Now naturalists fear that up to 1,500 dugongs – a species of sea cows – and 6,000 turtles along the Reef are likely to die in the coming months because their main food source, sea grass, which grows on the ocean floor, was largely wiped out by the floods and cyclone. In some places the plants were ripped from the seabed by currents created by the storms and in others they were inundated under silt and soil washed out from the land by the torrential rains.

Beachgoers have reported stumbling across groups of turtles in shallow waters near Townsville – only to discover they were dead or dying. "This is a long-term environmental disaster," said Dr Ellen Ariel, a turtle expert at James Cook University. "It is not like an oil spill where you can clean the water and move on. It is such a large stretch of coastline... We have had mass strandings of turtles. The turtles are sick and starving and can't go on any longer. They don't have anywhere to go."

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says it expects more dugongs to die than in any previous event.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8753630/Mass-starvation-of-dugongs-and-turtles-on-Great-Barrier-Reef.html

[tawadi]

1. So sad

:-(

[xdrfox]

2. Results of Oil and Corexit, Australia, Gulf of Mexico, Death Death Death !

Australia: Corexit EC9500 and Corexit EC9527A Used, Activists Claim 8 Deaths, Fish Kills Linked to the Dispersant's !
To Gulf Oil Spill on Wednesday, November 03, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/248/637/Australia:_Corexit_EC9500_and_Corexit_EC9527A_Used,_Activists_Claim_8_Deaths,_Fish_Kills_Linked_to_the_Dispersants.html

I have been keeping track of the many deaths of Australia, Queenland since the first of this year here. I had notice much last year and year before of deaths so I decided to document on all around the globe also !
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/by/0000000000004882

These deaths are very familiar with the Gulf BP Oil Gusher in the Gulf of Mexico last year and the use of Corexit and other to get rid of the oil !
There may well be use of man made oil eaters that have changed the structure of the basics of life in the ocean to change and or die off from the plankton upwards in the food chain !

[xdrfox]

3. Death Death Death in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard

Death Death Death in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard from oil spill and Corexit and other chemicals
from the beginning to now at :
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/