The Manta Trust Five-Year Plan

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INTRODUCTIONIn late 2018, we launched “Conserving Manta& Devil Rays: A Research & Policy Strategy”; adocument designed to direct global efforts andpriorities to conserve manta and devil rays. The“Research & Policy Strategy”, in tandem with our“Education & Diversity Strategy”, illustrates thecomplexity and breadth of what is needed to trulyachieve our vision.Our vision is a sustainable future for the ocean,where manta rays and their relatives thrive inhealthy diverse marine ecosystems.However, to effectively play our part in contributingtowards the objectives in the aformentionedstrategies, and achieve our vision, we needed tobetter define the Manta Trust’s role in the near andmedium term. In response, this Five-Year Plan wascreated by the Manta Trust team, with guidanceand input from our global network of scientists,policy experts, and educators, and with facilitationfrom Martin Clark of The Advocacy Hub.The Five-Year Plan defines our four keyconservation goals which are supported by ourgovernance aims, also outlined in this document.This document will underpin our approach toeverything, from recruitment to funding allocation,to project management. It will help us to makefast, strategic decisions that best serve our missionand it will enable us to better monitor and reporton progress. The Five-Year Plan will be a flexibledocument that is reviewed annually and adaptedas necessary based on our empirical findings anddata collected.Our mission is to collaborate with affiliates aroundthe world through research, education, and byproviding expert advice to drive the policies andpractices necessary to conserve manta rays, theirrelatives, and habitats.As an umbrella organisation, the Manta Trust worksto support 29 affiliated projects around the world.The Five-Year Plan will direct our Affiliate Project’sefforts, review their progress, and support criticaldecisions around the distribution of our resourcesglobally. The extent to which a project contributesto the objectives laid out in our Five-Year Planwill be a critical factor in decision making aroundmaintaining current affiliations and forming newones.Several of the actions described in the Five-YearPlan are to develop new reports and studies thatwill drive conservation of these species that haveonly been intensively studied for a few decades.Building a greater foundation of robust scientificunderstanding is a vital step in enhancing ourknowledge of their biology and ecology andunderstanding the impact of threats like overfishingand the climate crisis.Conserving Manta & Devil Rays | The Manta Trust Five-Year Plan4
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