Pew Awards Malaysian Mammal Scientist the 2014 Fellowship in Marine Conservation (Pew Environment Group – EU Marine Programme of the Pew Environment Group)

(Source: Pew Environment Group – EU Marine Programme of the Pew Environment Group) City Kuala Lumpur State / Country Malaysia Project will focus on understanding dugong ecology for conservation of its habitat  Louisa Shobhini Ponnampalam, Ph.D., a scientist with the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and co-founder of grassroots NGO, The MareCet Research Organization, has been awarded a 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to conduct new research on the country’s population of dugongs, a large coastal marine mammal that resembles the manatee. The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation awards recipients US$150,000 for a three-year project to address conservation…