Sirenews Number 48, October 2007 is now available online at http://www.sirenian.org/sirenews.html in both HTML and PDF format. Sirenews is the newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Sirenia Specialist Group The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is a science-based network of volunteer experts working together towards achieving the vision of "A world that values and conserves present levels of biodiversity." The Sirenia Specialist Group is focused on the conservation of manatee and dugong populations around the world. In this issue: * RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF SCALE MISMATCH IN DUGONG CONSERVATION * FLORIDA MANATEE VOTE POSTPONED * BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE * SIRENIAN POPULATION GENETICS CONFERENCE * FUTURE FORMAT OF SIRENEWS * CONSERVATION PROSPECTS FOR THE WEST AFRICAN MANATEE * CONSERVATION OF THE WEST AFRICAN MANATEE Trichechus senegalensis: WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH * BYCATCH OF NON-TARGETED MARINE SPECIES IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: PROBLEMS AND MITIGATION MEASURES. * LOCAL NEWS Dominican Republic East Africa Indonesia Mexico Sierra Leone * ABSTRACTS THE SPATIAL ECOLOGY OF DUGONGS: APPLICATIONS TO CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT, PhD Thesis submitted by James Sheppard CONFLICT TO CO-MANAGEMENT: EATING OUR WORDS TOWARDS SOCIALLY JUST CONSERVATION OF GREEN TURTLES AND DUGONGS IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA, PhD Thesis Submitted by Melissa Nursey-Bray LONG-DISTANCE OCEANIC MOVEMENT OF A SOLITARY DUGONG (Dugong dugon) to the COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS. Hobbs, J-P.A.*, A.J. Frisch, J. Hender, and J.J. Gilligan. 2007. Aquatic Mammals 33(2):175-178. * RECENT LITERATURE IMPORTANT NOTE: Sirenews is an informal forum, not to be considered citable, formally-published literature; it is NOT "peer-reviewed", and contributions to it should not be quoted without the written permission of the author. The opinions expressed are those of the writers and not necessarily those of IUCN or other organizations. Sirenews (ISSN 1017-3439) appears twice a year in April and October and is edited by James A. Powell and Cynthia R. Taylor, Wildlife Trust, 1601 3rd Street S., Suite F, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA. It is supported by the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and Sea World, Inc. Submission deadlines are April 1 and October 1. Material may be submitted by e-mail to: Cynthia Taylor (taylor@wildlifetrust.org) or by fax to 1-352-368-3895 (USA).