![]() The biggest success so far? Achieving the implementation of legislation to protect the giant manta ray and saw fish. ![]() It’s been recorded off east and west coasts of the upper North Island, mainly from spring to early autumn. The conservation status of the giant (or oceanic) manta ray (Mobula birostris) has been uplisted today to Endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Concentrated in Peru, the projects are scaling up internationally through collaborative research across the Eastern Pacific region and the Connecting Schools program, which looks far beyond the country’s national borders.īringing together citizens, the government and researchers, this participative approach is making a big impact. The giant manta is the only manta ray recorded from New Zealand. 400 citizen scientists have developed 20+ environmental projects including monitoring fishing and replanting mangroves. To date, Planeta Océano has reached more than 500,000 people and engaged 12 communities in northern Peru. Manta rays are filter feeders, taking in microscopic food (plankton), including fish larvae, krill, shrimp, and planktonic crabs from the water column and filtering them through their gill. Planeta Océano also fosters environmental entrepreneurship to drive eco-tourism, as an alternative source of income for fishermen and local artisans. With a strong focus on education, Planeta Océano created the Marine Educators Teacher Network, which is already supported by more than 50 schools. Committed to citizen science and participative research, the programme unites local volunteers to study local ecosystems and marine species – from manta rays and sawfish to protected marine areas. To bring together local citizens and fishermen to protect the giant manta ray and its marine ecosystem, Kerstin Forsberg co-founded Planeta Océano. Conservation groups are spurring research into the slow-growing giant, which can stretch 12 feet wingtip to wingtip, weigh 1,500 pounds and live 40 years. ![]() and the largest ray in the world, the giant oceanic manta ray. Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs The giant manta ray has the largest brain of all the worlds fish, but they filter-feed.
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