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By Putu Liza Mustika
The US National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Response Conference that I attended in early September (6-9 Sept 2016) was not the first of its kind that I attended at a national level, but it was certainly the most impressive one. My sincere thanks to International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) for their generous contributions so that I could attend this event, and for NOAA for extending the invitation to me. The conference enabled me to learn many things to apply to Indonesia’s own national marine mammal stranding network. The followings are lessons I learned during some sessions of the conference. Granted, I couldn’t attend all sessions as much as I wanted to. For instance, given my limited medical/veterinarian knowledge, I only attended some veterinary sessions that my Indonesian vet colleagues would have not missed for the world. However, what I’ve learned from the sessions I did attend was a treasure. The followings are things that I learned the most during the conference, not necessarily in the order of magnitude nor importance. (Click here to read the whole blog)
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Mustika is going to the USA this weekend to attend the US Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference in West Virginia, 6-9 Sept 2016, organised by NOAA Fisheries. Thanks to NOAA for extending the invitation to Mustika, and to IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) for supporting the airfare, accommodation and registration for the conference. Mustika will present a poster showcasing the marine mammal stranding response progress in Indonesia from 2004-2016. The poster can be found here. The poster highlight is that until now, the whole national stranding team has trained more than 1,000 (yes, a thousand) first responders at about 33 sites in the country. It is an achievement indeed for this large archipelagic nation, one that cannot be achieved just by one institution/person doing this on their own. In short, it's an applause for us all.
Mustika akan terbang ke USA akhir pekan ini untuk menghadiri the US Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference di West Virginia, 6-9 Sept 2016, diorganisir oleh NOAA Fisheries. Terima kasih kepada NOAA untuk undangannya serta IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) untuk dukungan tiket pesawat, akomodasi dan registrasi konferensi. Mustika akan mempresentasikan poster tentang update kegiatan pengelolaan mamalia laut yang terdampar di Indonesia dari 2004-2016. Posternya dapat dibaca di sini. Salah satu highlight poster tersebut adalah bahwa sampai sekarang tim marine mammal stranding telah melatih lebih dari 1,000 (seribu) peserta di sekitar 33 lokasi di Indonesia. Hal ini adalah suatu prestasi bagi negara kepulauan sebesar Indonesia. Capaian ini tidaklah dapat dilakukan hanya oleh satu orang/satu institusi saja. Dengan kata lain, capaian ini adalah prestasi bagi kita semua. It occurred to us yesterday that some visitors might find this website quiet and lack of excitement going. Well, that cannot be farther from truth, because up at the Facebook page, we are very active. We try to post once a week during no-stranding times. When there are strandings, we will post frequently, including the updates, in English and Indonesian. But some visitors might only visit this website or the Facebook page, hence do not see the whole picture.
Thus, we have included Facebook feed on the frontpage, a comment section (still trial, 3rd party app), and also a gallery. We will not post all photos here; that's what the Facebook page is for. However, the gallery is hoped to capture the essence of our activities. Since this website is largely a voluntary effort, it will be difficult to maintain the blog in both English and Indonesian. Attempts will be made to make bilingual posts whenever possible, but it will mainly be in English. Thanks for your understanding. Terpikir kemarin oleh kami bahwa beberapa pengunjung mungkin merasa website ini sepi dan kurang cetar membahana. Hal itu sungguh salah, karena kami sangat aktif di Facebook kami. Di FB, kami berusaha memposting artikel paling tidak seminggu sekali untuk saat-saat di mana tidak ada kejadian terdampar. Saat ada kejadian terdampar, kami akan memposting lebih sering, termasuk juga update dalam dwi-bahasa (Inggris dan Indonesia). Namun ada memang pengunjung yang hanya berkunjung ke website utama ini atau ke Facebook, sehingga tidak melihat gambar besarnya. Karenanya, kami telah menyertakan Facebook feed di halaman depan, sekaligus bagian komentar (masih trial, pihak ketiga) dan satu gallery. Kami tidak akan memposting semua foto di sini, karena itu memang porsinya Facebook. Namun gallery tersebut diharapkan dapat menceritakan esensi kegiatan kami. Karena website ini kebanyakan dikerjakan secara sukarela, maka sulitlah bagi kami untuk memelihara blog ini di dwi-bahasa. Kami tetap akan berusaha membuat artikel-artikel dwi-bahasa, tapi terutama akan dalam bahasa Inggris (artikel bahasa Indonesia diterbitkan sesuai kemampuan kami). Demikian, terima kasih. |
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