Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAM III)
The Third Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAM III) will be taking place in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, from 4 – 10 March 2013. The event will be co-hosted by the MareCet Research Organization along with the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University Malaya. SEAMAM III will be a forum for consideration of issues related to the conservation and biology of coastal/inshore, estuarine and riverine marine mammals in Southeast Asia. It will bring together marine mammal researchers who are working in Southeast Asian countries and in the wider Indo-Pacific region to report on their results and plans, exchange information on research methods, and assist colleagues who are new to the field. The symposium’s goal is to ensure that the research being conducted is grounded in robust methods and designs and that the results lead to improved conservation of marine mammals in the region.
The conference will consist of a symposium for presentation of status reports on marine mammals in each country/region, followed by a series of workshops and discussion/training sessions. The workshops will be interdisciplinary, and include topics such as creation of marine protected areas, educational activities in local communities, economics and conservation in small-scale fisheries and marine mammal bycatch. Workshop leaders will be local scientists and other individuals with extensive experience working in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
SEAMAM III, like its predecessor conferences in the Philippines in 1995 and 2002, will be an important platform for capacity building and information exchange. It will also provide a benchmark to identify research and conservation needs and to address issues faced by local scientists in different countries in the region
The following reports produced from previous SEAMAMs may be found at:
SEAMAM I – 1995
SEAMAM II – 2005
SEAMAM I – 1995
SEAMAM II – 2005
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