Assertion: dugong | /r/Desires | the protection of the law
Facets:
value: to prevent
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: This has made it very easy to exploit them and they have been heavily hunted for their meat, hide and oil—to the point where dugongs now need the protection of the law to prevent the species disappearing (like its close relative, the larger Steller’s sea cow, which hungry seal hunters wiped out within a few decades of its discovery in the Bering Sea in 1741).