Three years after Raja Ampat’s walking shark won full legal protection, researchers off Sawinggrai village counted 2,462 per square kilometre, the densest population ever recorded for the genus. These reef-crawlers barely move, which makes them easy to wipe out but quick to recover where habitat holds and local villagers wade out to count them. Oceanographic https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-walking-shark-discovered-as-protected-indonesian-population-booms/ #ShareGoodNewsToo