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Bird's Head Seascape > Research > Biodiversity > Intervention by Instinct: Augmenting Hope for Raja Ampat’s Leopard Sharks
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Intervention by Instinct: Augmenting Hope for Raja Ampat’s Leopard Sharks

23 Jan 2026
Burt Jones
In a nursery in Raja Ampat, a team of researchers are pioneering new methods to reverse the current declines in marine biodiversity across the Indo-Pacific, taking bold new steps through an artificial insemination programme developed to support a genetically diverse and self-sustaining breeding population of Endangered leopard sharks. Because in Raja Ampat, eggs mark the spots.
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