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Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme

HQ 🇲🇻 Maldives · 1 project tracked

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Naming Every Whale Shark in the Maldives

Ocean Life

🇲🇻 Maldives

A Maldivian charity that photo-identifies individual whale sharks by their spot patterns to protect the only year-round aggregation site of its kind on Earth.

800whale sharksIndividual whale sharks photo-identified
8,000encountersWhale shark encounters logged since 2006
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