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Ichida, N. (2024, November). ReSharking our ocean - one threatened species at a time. Keynote address, 79th WAZA Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Heatubun, C.D., Ichida, N., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V., Dove, A., Fahmi, Hadfield, C., Herwata Putra, M.I., Hoopes, L., Meyer, E., Neal, L. and Sianipar, A.B. (2024, October). Resharking leopards in Raja Ampat: A behind-the-scenes look at the StAR project. 7th International Marine Conservation Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dudgeon, C. and Heatubun, C. D. (2024, May). Initiatives to rebuild the Indo-Pacific leopard shark population in Raja Ampat using translocation and restocking approaches. 4th Indonesian Sharks and Rays Symposium, Depok, Indonesia.

Dudgeon, C. (2024, April). Genetics and ReShark. Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference 2024.

Ichida, N. et al. (2023, November). Resharking leopards in Raja Ampat: A behind-the-scenes look at the StAR (Stegostoma tigrinum Augmentation and Recovery) project [Conference presentation]. 11th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Pollom, R. (2023, October). ReShark: Building a multicultural, interdisciplinary coalition for global shark and ray conservation. 78th Annual Conference of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, San Diego, CA, USA.

Baylina, N. (2023, September), ReShark Initiative: An international, collective effort to recover threatened shark and rays around the world. Annual Conference of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Finland.

Meyer, E. and Tapilatu, J. (presenters); Pollom, R. (moderator) (2023, September). Zebra sharks in Raja Ampat: The StAR Project [Conference presentation]. Diverse Partnerships for Aquatic Species Recovery, 99th Annual Conference of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Columbus, OH, USA.

Meyer, E. (presenter) (2023, September). ReShark: an update on our impact and evolution [Presentation]. SAFE Shark and Ray, 99th Annual Conference of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Columbus, OH, USA.

Erdmann, M.V. (2023, June). Restoring leopards to coral reefs? A true story of marine rewilding in the coral triangle [Plenary session]. 5th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, Singapore.

Hadfield, C. et al. (2023, May). ReShark: Restoring zebra sharks in Indonesia through ex situ and in situ rearing [Poster presentation]. 2023 International Aquatic Animal Medicine Conference, Utah, USA.

Meyer, E. (2022, December). Co-creating a global initiative to ReShark the ocean [Presentation]. Goalmakers National Conference, Seattle, WA, USA.

Dove, A.D.M., Augustyn, J., Ichida, N., Hoopes, L.A., Abel, G., Sianipar, A.B., Herwata Putra, M.I., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V. and Meyer, E. (2022, November). The StAR Project: A highly collaborative model for ex situ shark conservation [Presentation]. 11th International Aquarium Congress, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Erdmann, M.V. (2022, November). Rewilding threatened shark species: the StAR leopard shark recovery project as a case study in conservation translocations [Presentation]. Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, USA.

Meyer, E., Abel, G., Dove, A.D.M., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V., Fahmi, Heatubun, C.D., Herwata Putra, M.I., Hoopes, L.A., Ichida, N. and Sianipar, A.B. (2022, October). Recovering threatened elasmobranchs through ex situ breeding & in situ release [Presentation]. 2022 WAZA Conference, Tenerife, Spain.

Meyer, E., Abel, G., Dove, A.D.M., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V., Fahmi, Heatubun, C.D., Herwata Putra, M.I., Hoopes, L.A., Ichida, N. and Sianipar, A.B. (2022, October). Recovering threatened elasmobranchs through ex situ breeding & in situ release [Presentation]. 2022 WAZA Conference, Tenerife, Spain.

Hoopes, L.A., Sianipar, A.B., Abel, G., Dove, A.D.M., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V.. Herwata Putra, M.I., Ichida, N., Meyer, E., Heatubun, C.D., Fahmi, and Octaviani, S. (2022, October). Ex situ breeding programs as a conservation tool for imperiled sharks and rays [Presentation]. Sharks International 2022 Conference, Valencia, Spain.

Meyer, E., Ichida, N., Dudgeon, C. and Heatubun, C.D. (2022, October). ReShark: an international, collective effort to recover threatened sharks and rays around the world [Workshop]. Sharks International 2022 Conference, virtual.

Hoopes, L.A., Abel, G., Carpenter, T., Dove, A.D.M., Dudgeon, C., Erdmann, M.V., Hadfield, C.A., Heatubun, C.D., Herwata Putra, M.I., Ichida, N., Levans, J.C., Lyons, K., Martelli, P., Meyer, E., Miners, M., Oruw, D.J. and Sianipar, A.B. (2021, July), A novel conservation strategy for elasmobranch population reinforcement: The StAR Project. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Phoenix, AZ, USA.