Lecture / Seminar Meeting / Club Community
coordinator@blomidonnaturalists.ca
While there are many reasons to be thankful for the ice and snow covering our landscape (and what winter we can get for the sake of our ecosystems and rhythms), we are moving to warmer waters for the February monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society...
Join us for a talk on rays and conservation with BNS Board member and Chief Executive and Founder of the Manta Trust, Dr. Guy Stevens!
7:00 pm social prior to the meeting
7:30 pm meeting commences, with nature notes, updates and Guy's talk.
In-person upstairs, (we apologize for this barrier) or online on Zoom (registration here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvfuCppjsuGNETR1oAtZJUCuAo0N4hXnxz)
Presentation: Manta - Secret Life of Devil Rays!
Manta and devil rays are some of the most beautiful, fascinating, and enigmatic creatures in our oceans. Close relatives of all sharks and rays, these cartilaginous, filter-feeding fish range throughout the tropical and sub-tropical oceans of the world. Born into a life of perpetual motion, they can never stop moving, as they must keep water flowing over their gills to respire. Their daily and seasonal movements are tuned to the ebb and flow of the ocean currents that breathe life into their world, bearing the planktonic food upon which they depend.
Their obvious intellect and complex social interactions set manta rays apart from other fishes, but as they have only been scientifically studied in detail for around a decade, much of their life history remains a mystery.
Guy’s presentation will cover the taxonomy, biology, and behavioural ecology of this family of rays, as well as discussing the major threats to these species globally, and the conservation work and Guy and his colleagues are doing at the Manta Trust.
We are excited to have a unique talk and to know that learning about species and conservation work has broad-ranging insights, implications and lessons for global biodiversity conservation and policy, including perhaps even here in Nova Scotia, as we live within an interconnected world of ecological and climate crises and the need to research and protect our natural world.
Presenter: Dr. Guy Stevens is the Chief Executive and Founder of the Manta Trust, a UK and US registered charity dedicated to the conservation of manta and devil rays (mobulids), with collaborative projects in over 25 countries. He has spent the last 20 years studying mobulids all over the world and is one of the foremost experts on these species.
coordinator@blomidonnaturalists.ca
While there are many reasons to be thankful for the ice and snow covering our landscape (and what winter we can get for the sake of our ecosystems and rhythms), we are moving to warmer waters for the February monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society...
Join us for a talk on rays and conservation with BNS Board member and Chief Executive and Founder of the Manta Trust, Dr. Guy Stevens!
7:00 pm social prior to the meeting
7:30 pm meeting commences, with nature notes, updates and Guy's talk.
In-person upstairs, (we apologize for this barrier) or online on Zoom (registration here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvfuCppjsuGNETR1oAtZJUCuAo0N4hXnxz)
Presentation: Manta - Secret Life of Devil Rays!
Manta and devil rays are some of the most beautiful, fascinating, and enigmatic creatures in our oceans. Close relatives of all sharks and rays, these cartilaginous, filter-feeding fish range throughout the tropical and sub-tropical oceans of the world. Born into a life of perpetual motion, they can never stop moving, as they must keep water flowing over their gills to respire. Their daily and seasonal movements are tuned to the ebb and flow of the ocean currents that breathe life into their world, bearing the planktonic food upon which they depend.
Their obvious intellect and complex social interactions set manta rays apart from other fishes, but as they have only been scientifically studied in detail for around a decade, much of their life history remains a mystery.
Guy’s presentation will cover the taxonomy, biology, and behavioural ecology of this family of rays, as well as discussing the major threats to these species globally, and the conservation work and Guy and his colleagues are doing at the Manta Trust.
We are excited to have a unique talk and to know that learning about species and conservation work has broad-ranging insights, implications and lessons for global biodiversity conservation and policy, including perhaps even here in Nova Scotia, as we live within an interconnected world of ecological and climate crises and the need to research and protect our natural world.
Presenter: Dr. Guy Stevens is the Chief Executive and Founder of the Manta Trust, a UK and US registered charity dedicated to the conservation of manta and devil rays (mobulids), with collaborative projects in over 25 countries. He has spent the last 20 years studying mobulids all over the world and is one of the foremost experts on these species.
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Pricing: Free
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