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Okinawa Neg Dugong Frontline (1/2) 2 Dugong Frontline (2/2) 3 Dugong Frontline 2NC 4 Dugong: Alt Cause (Bycatch) 5 Dugong: Alt Cause- Dredging 5 Dugong: Alt Cause (Hunting) 6 No Extinction: Australia/Diverse 7 Bases Good- East Asian Stability 8 Bases Good- Deterrence 12 Bases Good- Disaster Relief 13 Bases Good- Asian Peace 14 Bases Good- North Korea Deterrence 14 Bases Good- Japanese Soft Power 15 Bases Good- Deterrence 15 Bases Good- Power Projection 16 Bases Good- China Relations 16 Location Key 18 At: Relations Turn 19 AT- Korea Prepared 19 AT: Okinawans Hate us 20 No Solvency- Base cant move 20 No Solvency- Helicopters 21 Reform Now: Bars 21 Reform Now 22 Whaling Condition CP 1NC 26 Whaling CP: AT Japan Wont Compromise 28 Whaling CP :Ban Solves Dugongs 29 Whaling Ban Good: Economic Security 30 Whaling Ban Good: Warming 31 Whale CP: Whaling unethical 32 Whaling CP: Diplomacy Solves 33 Whaling CP: Japan says yes 34 Whaling CP: Ethical Obligation 35 Dugong Frontline (1/2) 1) Dugongs wont recover- Low Reproduction rate Feffer 10 (John Feffer, institute for policy studies, “Save the Dugong”, /environmental-issue/dugong/) Female dugongs give birth to a single infant after a thirteen-month pregnancy. The mother then spends the next two years raising her cafe. Although a female dugong can live as long as seventy years, she will only have a few offspring, investing considerable time with each one. This means the dugong population is especially sensitive to over-hunting and habitat destruction. 2) Impact N/U only 50 dugongs left Center for Biological Diversity 10( “Okinawa Dugong”, /species/mammals/Okinawa_dugong/index.html) Dugongs, distant relatives of the manatee, can live for 70 years and grow to nearly 1,000 pounds. Yet somehow these gentle creatures are said to have fooled lonely sailors into mistaking them for mermaids. In the vibrant turquoise waters of Japan’s Henoko Bay, dugong herds once grazed peacefully on vast meadows of sea grass. But after de