BBC Wildlife 2(7): 362. July 1984.

–Suggests that the report (in the previous February's BBC Wildlife) of heavy dugong casualties in 1983 from oil spills in the Iran-Iraq War may have underestimated dugong numbers in the Arabian Gulf. Quotes Peter Dickinson that in Abu Dhabi, probably 40-70 dugongs per year were caught incidentally, and "even 30 years ago, most of the sandals on Abu Dhabi island were dugong leather."