Venue : Maritime Institute of Malaysia
The Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) in collaboration with the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), University of Malaya and the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) will be organising the above event on 3 August, 2010. This is basically a follow-up to the Seminar, entitled Marine Mammals Conservation in Malaysia: Adopting Sustainable Management Strategies, organised by MIMA in 2009, where various issues and threats on marine mammals' survival were discussed. One of the major shortcomings identified was the absence of a national marine mammal stranding response network in the country.
This Roundtable Discussion therefore aims to identify issues threatening the survival of marine mammals and heighten the need for their conservation, review current standards and procedures of rehabilitating stranded marine mammals in the country, explore expertise and facilities of relevant agencies and organisations in handling marine mammal strandings, introduce appropriate protocols for the handling of marine mammal strandings, and propose for the setting up of a National Marine Mammal Stranding Response Network.
