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Apr 7, 2013 · Under section 211 of the Native Title Act, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are entitled to hunt dugongs for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal needs. State and Territory ...
Jun 30, 2022 · So the sustainable hunting and harvesting of dugong, that the Torres Strait Islander people have been practicing for so long is so important to preserve because it's their knowledges about which ...
- ABC Education
Dugong hunting has been practised in Wide Bay–Burnett in Queensland since at least 1861. Commercial netting began in 1924. The dugong was a prized source of oil, hide, and meat, and charcoal from their bones was used in sugar refining. [3] The practice was banned in 1965, apart from a limited catch by Indigenous Australians, who used dugongs ...
Dec 12, 2017 · Traditional owners in northern Australian coastal indigenous communities have the right to hunt dugongs and turtles in their Sea Country (an Australian indigenous term that relates to the ‘authority held and responsibilities of particular groups of traditional owners to particular areas of sea, and is based on cultural relationships with these areas’; Plagányi et al., Reference Plagányi ...
- Aurélie Delisle, Milena Kiatkoski Kim, Natalie Stoeckl, Felecia Watkin Lui, Helene Marsh
- 2017
strikes, climate change and Indigenous hunting (Marsh et al. 2007 , 2011 ). In terms of the latter, his-torical and anthropological evidence indicates that numerous Aboriginal groups hunted dugongs and that dugongs have deep social, cosmological and ceremonial significance (e.g. Bradley 1991 , 1998 ; Marsh et al. 1981 , 2002 ; Ross et al. 2011 ...
Torres Strait is home to the world’s largest population of dugong and is also an im-portant foraging, breeding and nesting area for 6 of the world’s 7 species of marine turtles. Torres Strait Islanders, like mainland Aboriginal people, traditionally hunt dugong and turtle and have been practicing this custom for many thousands of years.
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Dugongs have important cultural and social values for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in coastal areas of northern Australia. Hunting these species is important for maintaining family relations (kinship) and social structure, has important ceremonial and community purposes and also provides valuable protein in regions where fresh food is expensive and difficult to obtain.
