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Peru: The story of how scientists and fishermen came together to save giant mantas

By Michelle Carere

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It was a night in April 2015 when Kerstin Forsberg, sitting in her room in her house in Lima, saw on television that fishermen from Tumbes, in northern Peru, had captured a giant manta. Hanging from a crane, the 1,000-kilogram, seven-meter-wide dead animal "was a monster," journalists said, Forsberg recalls.

In her eyes, on the other hand, who is a biologist and had already been working to protect this species considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), it seemed to her that it was a . . .

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