With 21 years of country-based experience working with large fish, turtles, fisheries, and the tourism sector in Belize, MarAlliance’s work with large iconic marine wildlife began here.

Working locally with traditional fishers, coastal and indigenous communities, we focus on generating information necessary for management and decision-making through collaborative research and monitoring, capacity building, income diversification, and outreach.

We have established permanent sites where we conduct standardized long-term monitoring of coastal and reef-associated marine megafauna.

We work with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the private sector and recreational divers to assess the spatio-temporal use of the banks by manta rays using photo ID, acoustic and satellite tagging.

We conduct research and outreach in several sites along the Caribbean and the Pacific including the indigenous Guna Yala Comarca.