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Work underway for Tasmania's first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area

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For millennia, First Nations people in Tasmania have had a connection to the sea, including the cultural practices of shell-stringing, diving and hunting. Work is now underway to establish the state's first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area. It will support conservation, protection and management of the area, which includes ecologically important seagrass beds. Kerrin Thomas reports from in Big Dog Island in Tayaritja, or the Bass Strait Islands.
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