Manta Pacific Research Foundation

`I was very honored when I was contacted by the founders of the Manta Pacific Research Foundation. They are one of the very first manta ray research foundations and they have accomplished amazing amount of data collection in the last couple of decades on the hawaiian manta rays.`-says Dr. Csilla Ari, the principal investigator of the Foundation for the Oceans of the Future, who was recently asked to become Board of Director for the prestigious Manta Pacific Research Foundatio

Dr. Csilla Ari talked about her research on manta ray brains in the amazing movie The Giants of the Oceans. http://thegiantsoftheocean.com/index.html

The International Conference on Oceanography was held during August 21-23, 2013 at Holiday Inn Orlando International Airport, Orlando-Florida, USA. The Oceanography-2013 was a remarkable event which brought together a unique and International mix of Oceanography & Marine science Researchers, leading universities and research institutions making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaboration across industry, academia, and evaluate emerging techno

After the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society meeting in Brisbane I went to Fiji to present my research at the University of South Pacific, in Suva. Dr. Khairul Azam invited me there who I met during the Manta Ray Symposium in Orlando, in August and is a professor at the marine biology department. Dr. Khairul was a great host and showed me around at the University and introduced me to his students and many professors as well. While I was in Suva I also visited a poor village elem

At many parts of the world manta rays are killed by people who are fishing for their survival, because they don`t have other option to survive or to support their family. Manta rays have very low reproductive rates, it is very slow or impossible for a targeted population to recover. Although they are legally protected in a few countries and the international trade of manta ray parts will be more strictly controlled from next year they are vulnerable to extinction. Illegal fis

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