The increasing popularity of marine wildlife tourism (MWT) worldwide calls for assessment of
its conservation outcomes and the development of appropriate management frameworks to …

Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as
whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The objective of this paper is to highlight animal stakeholders, evidenced-based best
practices, care ethics, and compassion as essential components of sustainable wildlife …

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 …