BaselineMarine macro-litter composition and distribution along the Kenyan Coast: The first-ever documented study
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CRediT authorship contribution statement
E.O. Okuku: Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. L.I. Kiteresi: Funding acquisition, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. G. Owato: Funding acquisition, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing -
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgment
We thank the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) for providing research funds, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute for infrastructure and technical support, and our project counterpart Kenya Wildlife service staff for support in Pirates beach surveys. A very big thank you to volunteers from KMFRI particularly Benard Oketch, Joy Ndwiga, Quinter Aketch and Purity Chepkemboi for your continued support during the surveys. Patrick Otuo, your efforts in mobilizing
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