Thank you to Daniel Mateos and Paula Clemente Abad for the great presentation they gave us last night on the work done at Emirates Nature-WWF (@ews_wwf) to protect the marine megafauna of the UAE and the Gulf region.
It was a captivating evening hearing from Daniel about all the research done on turtle conservation, the diversity of distribution and sightings of sharks and rays, the number of fish species, new species, habitat mapping, coral and seagrass surveys, and mangrove reservation!
Paula led us through the exploration of eDNA technology which is used as a monitoring tool for coastal ecosystems. A study which involves the collection of samples across all habitat types (sediment and water) and are then processed in the lab to give some remarkable results which was really exciting for all of us to learn about.
It was great seeing everyone, thank you for coming!
