Crowds cheer as ailing marine animal successfully netted in Merimbula Lake from where it will be airlifted to its Queensland domestic A stray dugong on the NSW south coast has been successfully netted after the massive inter-agency effort to rescue it overcame a series of setbacks,and will be flown to Queensland by RAAF Hercules.
Watching crowds cheered as the 2.75m male dugong was captured by a team of more than 20 people on Thursday morning, said Shona Lorigan of the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (Orrca).
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Source: theguardian.com