Julian A. Tyne
Holly Raudino
Emily Lester
Gemma Francis
Peter Barnes3
Kelly Waples- 1Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kensington, WA, Australia
- 2Australian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley, WA, Australia
- 3Parks and Wildlife, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Exmouth, WA, Australia
A Correction on
Ningaloo Marine Park management program best practice for whale shark (Rhincodon typus) conservation
by Tyne JA, Raudino H, Lester E, Francis G, Barnes P and Waples K (2025) Front. Conserv. Sci. 5:1499005. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1499005
In the published article, there were errors related to the reporting of findings by Reynolds et al. (2024a).
A correction has been made to the Introduction, Paragraph 7. This sentence previously stated:
“More recently, Reynolds et al. (2024a) found no short-term impacts on whale sharks in NMP from tourist interactions”
The corrected sentence appears below:
“More recently, Reynolds et al. (2024a) found that tourist interactions in NMP had minimal short-term effects on whale sharks, which were, however, unlikely to have energetic consequences.”
A correction has been made to Discussion, Paragraph 2. This sentence previously stated:
“A recent study investigating the short-term effects of tourism on the whale sharks in NMP also highlighted that a cumulative whale shark encounter duration exceeded the time limit permitted (Reynolds et al., 2024a).”
The corrected sentence appears below:
“A recent study investigating the short-term effects of tourism on the whale sharks in NMP also highlighted that an average cumulative whale shark encounter duration exceeded the time limit permitted (Reynolds et al., 2024a).”
A correction has been made to Discussion, Paragraph 6. This sentence previously stated:
“Several studies have investigated the impacts of commercial in-water interactions on whale sharks in NMP (Sanzogni et al., 2015; Raudino et al., 2016; Lester et al., 2019; Reynolds et al., 2024a). There has been little evidence to suggest that tourist encounters with whale sharks have affected the likelihood of repeat encounters (Sanzogni et al., 2015; Lester et al., 2019). This suggests that long-term impacts of tourism on the whale sharks at NMP are not apparent, at current levels of tourism up to 2019.”
The corrected sentence appears below:
“Several studies have investigated the impacts of commercial in-water interactions on whale sharks in NMP (Sanzogni et al., 2015; Raudino et al., 2016; Lester et al., 2019; Reynolds et al., 2024a). Using biotelemetry technology Reynolds et al. (2024a) found increases in activity levels and directional changes in response to tourism. There has been little evidence to suggest that tourist encounters with whale sharks have affected the likelihood of repeat encounters (Sanzogni et al., 2015; Lester et al., 2019). This suggests that long-term impacts of tourism on the whale sharks at NMP are not apparent, at current levels of tourism up to 2019.”
The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: whale shark (Rhincodon typus), best practice, human-wildlife interactions, nature-based tourism, spatial density distribution, Ningaloo Marine Park
Citation: Tyne JA, Raudino H, Lester E, Francis G, Barnes P and Waples K (2025) Correction: Ningaloo Marine Park management program best practice for whale shark (Rhincodon typus) conservation. Front. Conserv. Sci. 6:1620623. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2025.1620623
Received: 29 April 2025; Accepted: 17 June 2025;
Published: 03 July 2025.
Edited and Reviewed by:
Christian Kiffner, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), GermanyCopyright © 2025 Tyne, Raudino, Lester, Francis, Barnes and Waples. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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