Sound project design, meeting the standards of peer review. Demonstrated effectiveness at presenting results to popular and technical audiences. The benefits of projects meeting the above criteria reach far beyond academia, to facilitate sharing of knowledge with local communities, students, governmental agencies, non-governmental agencies, and other conservation groups. Although our focus is on manatees and dugongs, SI hopes that our grant recipients will better understand the complexity of conservation issues, and the compelling need for partnerships among all parties involved, in both developing and industrialized nations. Electronic submissions are preferred.
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