Are we killing them with kindness? Evaluation of sustainable marine wildlife tourism

C Trave, J Brunnschweiler, M Sheaves, A Diedrich… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The increasing popularity of marine wildlife tourism (MWT) worldwide calls for assessment of
its conservation outcomes and the development of appropriate management frameworks to …

Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark

FC Womersley, NE Humphries… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as
whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported …

Shark aggregation and tourism: opportunities and challenges of an emerging phenomenon

Z Zemah Shamir, S Zemah Shamir… - … Development & World …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In the last few winters, shark communities have been aggregating near the Israeli
Mediterranean coast, at a specific point, near Hadera power station. This unusual …

A guilty pleasure: Tourist perspectives on the ethics of feeding whale sharks in Oslob, Philippines

JA Ziegler, JN Silberg, G Araujo, J Labaja, A Ponzo… - Tourism …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study explored the ethics of provisioning wildlife to enhance tourist interactions at a
whale shark tourism site in Oslob, Philippines. TripAdvisor comments (n= 947) and tourist …

Swimming with humans: biotelemetry reveals effects of “gold standard” regulated tourism on whale sharks

SD Reynolds, J Redcliffe, BM Norman… - Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Wildlife tourism can benefit conservation of target species, however, it can have detrimental
effects on animal behaviour and physiology. Whale shark Rhincodon typus tourism has …

Sublethal Injuries and Physical Abnormalities in Maldives Manta Rays, Mobula alfredi and Mobula birostris

EM Strike, JL Harris, KL Ballard, JP Hawkins… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Manta ray populations worldwide are vulnerable to sublethal injuries resulting from human
activities, eg, entanglement in fishing line and boat strikes, which have the potential to …

Multi-year patterns in scarring, survival and residency of whale sharks in Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia

E Lester, MG Meekan, P Barnes, H Raudino… - Marine Ecology …, 2020 - int-res.com
Documentation of scarring patterns on marine megafauna provides a means of quantifying
the risk of anthropogenic threats that occur in the open ocean, such as ship strike. This study …

Wound-healing capabilities of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and implications for conservation management

F Womersley, J Hancock, CT Perry… - Conservation …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Wound healing is important for marine taxa such as elasmobranchs, which can incur a
range of natural and anthropogenic wounds throughout their life history. There is evidence …

The ecology of the whale shark in Djibouti

G Boldrocchi, M Omar, A Azzola, R Bettinetti - Aquatic Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Within the Gulf of Aden, Djibouti is an important site where whale sharks
(Rhincodon typus Smith 1828) aggregate seasonally; however, up to now, only few studies …

Limited latitudinal ranging of juvenile whale sharks in the Western Indian Ocean suggests the existence of regional management units

CEM Prebble, CA Rohner, SJ Pierce… - Marine Ecology …, 2018 - int-res.com
Assessing the movements and connectivity of whale sharks Rhincodon typus through their
range is difficult due to high individual mobility and limited knowledge of their behaviour …