BunburyA model forecasts this dolphin population falling from 350 to 8.
The projected collapse spans a century, but it starts with dolphins alive under licensed tours today.
Hand-feeding tourism, not boats or nets, is the modeled cause, altering how females forage and raise calves.
Researchers say protective management, not a ban on all tourism, changes the forecast.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- quantifies dolphin collapse (350 to 8 in 100 years) from tourism and traces: begging behavior leads to injury and entanglement
Sources: Phys.org