Tomorrow morning I’ll travel from Senegal to Bamako, Mali to work with manatee colleagues Alfousseini Semega and Abdoulaye Guindo, and see their manatee study sites in the inland Niger River delta. Later in the trip I’ll also lead a week long manatee research and conservation training workshop for African colleagues, very similar to the ones I taught in Ghana for the past 2 years. This time many of the trainees will be from Mali, but we’ll also have participants from Niger, Ivory Coast and Chad. So it should be a very interesting trip! I’ll post more soon….