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Manta Conservation at Wakaya Island | Mantas in Fiji

Wakaya Island is home to one of the few gazetted Marine Protected Areas in the country and boasts a beautiful reef with diverse marine life, including reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi). The high-end Wakaya Island Resort works together with Manta Project Fiji, a small local NGO focussed on manta ray research and conservation and an affiliate to the larger Manta Trust, to not only identify and monitor the population but also to develop sustainable ecotourism guidelines to give guests the best possible experience while also protecting the manta rays. This film documents the efforts by Luke Gordon, Project Leader of Manta Project Fiji, and Dr. Mark Erdmann, Vice president of Asia-Pacific Marine Programs at Conservation International (CI), who were invited to Wakaya to deploy satellite tags to find out more about the movements of manta rays in the region. For more information about the research, head over to https://www.mantaproijectfiji.com or https://www.wakayaislandresort.com ________ Filmed and directed by Tom Vierus, https://www.pacificmediahouse.com