Report of the 1st National Indonesian Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop, Sanur Bali 25-28 November 2013

Apologies for the hiatus; I’ve been busy with my returning back to Australia and wrapping up three 1^st responder training workshops in Indonesia beforehand. I realised that I had not given a report on the 1^st National Indonesian Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop we conducted in Bali last November (25-28 Nov 2013), hence I whipped up the report I made to our funding agencies and tailored-suit it for this blog. The followings are the gist:

 

The 1^st National Indonesian Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop was conducted in Bali from 25 to 28 November 2013 to increase the capacity of Indonesian and Asian 1^st responders in the handling of live stranded marine mammals, increase the understanding of the science behind marine mammal stranding events, provide skills on how to determine the cause of death of marine mammals through necropsy and strengthen and widen the Indonesian and Asian stranding networks, including  capacity building and public awareness strategies.