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Announcing the Bird’s Head Seascape Manta ID Photo Contest

The more mantas we know, the more we will know about mantas! Help the BHS Mantas and win the trip of a lifetime aboard one of Indonesia’s premiere liveaboards. In commemoration of the BHS Manta...
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Announcing the Bird’s Head Seascape Manta ID Photo Contest

The more mantas we know, the more we will know about mantas! Help the BHS Mantas and win the trip of a lifetime aboard one of Indonesia’s premiere liveaboards. In commemoration of the BHS Manta...
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Beale Et Al-2019-Diversity And Distributions

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Beale Et Al-2019-Diversity And Distributions by Calvin S. Beale, Joshua D. Stewart, Edy Setyawan, Abraham B. Sianipar, Mark V. Erdmann, Beale_et_al-2019-Diversity_and_Distributions.pdf (1.4 MiB)...
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SITE FIDELITY AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF REEF MANTA RAYS (MOBULA ALFREDI: MOBULIDAE) USING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY IN NORTHERN RAJA AMPAT, INDONESIA

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SITE FIDELITY AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF REEF MANTA RAYS (MOBULA ALFREDI: MOBULIDAE) USING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY IN NORTHERN RAJA AMPAT, INDONESIA by Edy Setyawan1,2,3,*, Abraham B. Sianipar4,...
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First Documented Courtship Behavior between Mobula birostris and M. alfredi at a Coral Reef Cleaning Station in Misool, Raja Ampat

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First Documented Courtship Behavior between Mobula birostris and M. alfredi at a Coral Reef Cleaning Station in Misool, Raja Ampat by Edy Setyawan, SHAWN HEINRICHS, Mark Erdmann,...
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Loving Mantas…to their detriment!

Note: This post is about the situation shown in the attached You Tube video located near the end of this story.  If you don’t view it, you’ll never be as concerned as you need to be...
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A holistic approach to manta ray conservation in the Papuan Bird’s Head Seascape: Resounding success, ongoing challenges

A holistic approach to manta ray conservation in the Papuan Bird’s Head Seascape: Resounding success, ongoing challenges by Edy Setyawan, and others, Setyawan-2022BHSmantarayconservation_2.pdf...
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