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Special guest artist Caia Koopman and PangeaSeed have teamed up to create a very special limited edition fine art print highlighting the beauty and plight of manta rays to celebrate World Oceans Day (June 8). Proceeds from the sale of each print directly contributes to PangeaSeed's ongoing educational efforts to help save threatened marine species such as manta rays via art and activism. Artist:. Caia Koopman. Title:. May Mantas Thrive. Edition Size:. 50 plus 6 APs - signed & numbered. Print Details:. Fine-art Giclée print on cold-press archival watercolor paper. Dimensions:. 24" x 18". Printmaker:. Spoke Art Editions. Price:. $100 plus shipping & handling. Artist Statement:. 'Every time I learn more about an animal I share this planet with I fall in love with them a little more. This just happened with the Manta Ray, Mantas are so awesome, gentle, intelligent, curious, playful, not to mention HUGE! I think a dive with Mantas is officially on my bucket list, this sounds like an amazing adventure to swim with such majestic creatures in their ocean home. Sadly every time I learn more about a new animal I also become so frustrated with the way humans bulldoze their way through fragile habitat, wreak havoc on our oceans and marine life, and how we brutally butcher our fellow creatures for exotic cuisine and magical cures. I’m so happy to be able to paint my May Mantas Thrive painting to raise awareness about the realities Mantas face, it’s hard to be a gentle giant these days. The plight of Mantas right now reminds me so much of the plight of elephants, both awesome, intelligent, curious, playful and simply wonderful animals, both butchered for having one stupid thing people desire. Elephants are in danger of going extinct in the wild in possibly just a few years if something isn’t done to stop the butchering, let’s not let Mantas go down this same brutal road. If I were a bazillionaire I would build an army of environmental warriors to fight side by side my army of environmental lawyers!'.