Conservation of reef manta rays (Manta alfredi) in a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Large-scale island development or sustainable tourism?

• Steven Thomas Kessel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skessel80@gmail.com

  Affiliations Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago IL, United States of America, Equipe Cousteau, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-7701

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• Nasreldin Alhasan Elamin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation General Administration, Port Sudan, Sudan

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• David James Yurkowski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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• Tarik Chekchak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Equipe Cousteau, Paris, France

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• Ryan Patrick Walter,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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• Rebecca Klaus,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Equipe Cousteau, Paris, France, Senckenberg Research Institute and Museum of Nature Frankfurt Marine Zoology / Ichthyology Senckenberganlage 25, Frankfurt A.M., Germany

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• Graham Hill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Deep Aquarium, Hull, United Kingdom

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• Nigel Edward Hussey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Equipe Cousteau, Paris, France, Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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