[MARMAM] Latest Issue of Sirenews Available Online

[Caryn Self-Sullivan]

The latest issue of Sirenews is now available online at http://sirenian.org/sirenews/54OCT2010.pdf

Table of Contents

1.  Report from the 1st Official Meeting of the Signatory States:   
UNEP/CMS Conservation of Dugong MoU
2.  Historic Technical Meeting on Dugong Research and Conservation  
held in Madagascar
3.  USGS Survey News Release:  Manatee subspecies genetically  
confirmed, but diversity challenge looms:  Two Belize populations  
offer opportunity in a desert of genetic diversity.
4.  Sirenian Action Plan in Brazil & Aquatic Mammal Stranding Network  
in Brazil
6.  Sirenian Workshop During Latin American Aquatic Mammal Meeting
7.  Local News Australia:  Distribution and abundance of dugong in the  
Kimberly Region, North Western Australia
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is an informal forum, not to be considered citable, formally-published  
literature.  Sirenews is NOT "peer-reviewed", and contributions to it  
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Sirenews (ISSN 1017-3439) appears twice a year in April and October  
and is edited by Cynthia R. Taylor, Wildlife Trust, 1601 3rd Street  
S., Suite F, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA, and James A. Powell, Sea to  
Shore Alliance, 200 2nd Ave. S., #315, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. It is  
supported by the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission.  Submission deadlines  
are April 1 and October 1. Material may be submitted by e-mail to:  
Cynthia Taylor (taylor at wildlifetrust.org).

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Cheers,
Caryn

Caryn Self-Sullivan, Ph.D.
Email:  caryns at sirenian.org
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