The Wire

Conservationsts are outraged at the planned developement of a coal terminal at Gladstone on the central Queensland coast, which they say will destroy a vital dugong feeding ground. The dugong, which is listed as vulnerable to extinction worldwide, has its last population stronghold along the Queensland coast. Lydia Gibson, policy manager for tropical marine flagships at World Wildlife Fund Australia, and Janet Lanyon, senior lecturer and marine biologist at the University of Queensland caught up with Dominic Geiger to talk about the issue.