Report on the Roundtable Discussion on Establishing a National Marine Mammal Stranding Network in Malaysia

Ponnampalam, L. S., F. I. Jamal Hisne, and C. R. Kaur. 2010. Report on the roundtable discussion on establishing a national marine mammal stranding network in Malaysia. MIMA: 3 August 2010. MIMA Bulletin 17: 38 – 42.

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ABSTRACT

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) organised a Roundtable Discussion on Establishing a National Marine Mammal Stranding Network in Malaysia on 3 August, 2010. This was 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 to 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.