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the using of drones to detect dugongs and assess densities. Using satellite telemetry to study movements and habitat use. First deployments of a multi-sensor high resolution CATs tag.

Improved information and data on seagrass and dugong through CMS questionnaires, mapping and awareness raising. Some places dugongs are revered tribal totems and have cultural stories attached to them. As such they are not eaten.

State of the population (dugong) one of the biggest dugong population in the world, but with only hundreds of individual remaining. An isolated and vulnerable population

The issue occurs wherever whales and passive gear overlap. That the frequency is widely and often severely under-estimated. It is a welfare and conservation issue recommended that better data collection prevention and capacity building

Threats to sharks and rays, major threat to sharks and rays globally in unregulated fishing (including legal as well as illegal fishing). Habitat loss and modification - impacts coastal and freshwater species (barriers to migration)

To document, promote and enhance the social, cultural, economic, biological, and ecological values of sharks and rays for Indo-Pacific communities, both now and for future generations

Catch and trade regulation, transparency, reporting and CITES state responsibilities. Global catch, unless otherwise specified the term 'sharks' refers to all species of sharks, skates, rays and ghost sharks (Class Chondrichthyes)

Sharks are not like other fish, they are slow growing, late to mature and produce a few young ones.

Sharks and rays are the endangered species in the PNG

To see all species of manta rays and their relatives protected or effectively managed for sustainable/non consumptive use by the people closest to them, in a means that promotes wider ocean conservation.