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NATURE & WILDLIFE
queen of the mantas
Andrea Marshall is marine biologist and National Geographic Emerging
Explorer. She founded the Marine Megafauna Foundation and leads research
on globally threatened manta rays, as well as having discovered two new
species.
We hear about her experiences of life in the field in Mozambique. Her scientific
programme on -manta rays in southern Mozambique has been -underway for
the past 15 years. Only now, a decade and a half since she started in
Mozambique, she can really start to contribute to the conservation agenda for Definition Episodes
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manta rays there. Producer YOP
WaterBear Network 2020
This is the largest and most important manta population documented in Africa.
Saving this population matters. So while all of this may seem like an impossible
task, she believes it’s one worth fighting for — if she is -successful, she will not only
have documented the decimation of a major population of these rays, but she
can also monitor their rebirth.
