After two very short days in Suva, Ravai and I met again Sunday morning to fly to Vunisea in Kadavu, where we would continue our journey to our last destination: Dravuni Island. There are no direct flights to Kadavu from ...
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After we had returned from Kavewa Island and spent a night at the WWF headquarters in Labasa, our next destination was Yadua Island to the west of Vanua Levu, Fiji's second largest island. More specifically, we planned to camp one ...
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My recent photo and film assignment with WWF Pacific was all about turtles: Fiji's turtle nesting season was in full swing, and the idea was to join several turtle monitoring teams in the field and document their activities in three ...
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Marine turtles are of significant cultural importance in Fiji. They play a part in many traditional ceremonies and are the subject of many stories and local legends. Turtles have been and still are hunted and consumed in many parts of ...
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I recently visited Turtle Island for a few days of film shooting and found some great bird life on the lush and forested island (more than 500.000 trees have been planted here since the 1980s!) Turtle Island is located in ...
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During the Great Southern Bioblitz 2021, we organised an expedition with Kevin and Wojciech from @birdexplorers to photograph and film Fiji's endemic and rarely seen Pink-billed parrotfinch (Erythrura kleinschmidti). This elusive bird is only found on Fiji's largest island Viti ...
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A few weeks back I spent six days with the Kulawai Team on Taveuni, Fiji's fourth-largest island. The group consisted of NatureFiji-MareqetiViti staff and volunteers and was led by Vilikesa Masimbalavu to search for the Kulawai. A bird that has ...
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In my last post about the birdlife here in Fiji, I concentrated on the small and medium-sized birds that I have seen and photographed thus far. This post is dedicated to the doves (or pigeons, they are actually the same ...
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I know this lockdown sucks for many but there are a few positives of staying home, too. One of them is a lot of (unforeseen) time at hand. One of the tasks that Amanda and I have given ourselves to ...
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In last week's blog post I wrote about how we flew to the Iwokrama Forest in Guyana's interior where we started to collect information on Guyana's fauna and flora and existing ecotourism operations. Already on day one, we were lucky ...
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On a recent assignment for Urgewald, a German NGO that you can read about more here, I fly to a country many people will never have heard about: Guyana. This natural jewel lies in the north-east of South America and ...
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Readers of this blog will know that I have written and photographed extensively about Fiji's sharks in the Shark Reef Marine Reserve. Coinciding with my return to Fiji just a few days ago, Beqa Adventure Divers has yet again created ...
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This morning I joined the Global Climate March here in Suva, the capital of Fiji. With the biggest UN Climate conference of this decade, the 2015 Pairs Climate Confrerence (COP21) starting the 30th November and lasting until the 11th of December, ...
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Sometimes it can be difficult to adapt to new regulations and rules when you leave your country for another. I myself lived for almost two years in South Africa, a year in Egypt and live large parts of the year ...
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Mit dem momentan Plastikverbrauch auf der ganzen Welt, schaufelt sich die Menschheit ihr eigens Grab. Nur ein kleiner Teil davon wird recycelt, ein weitaus größere landet Tag für Tag und Jahr für Jahr in unseren Ozeanen. Unglaubliche 100.000.000 Tonnen schwimmen ...
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After you've showered or brushed your teeth, you might have been in contact with quite a lot of microplastic and added to the plastic pollution problem! Many might be wondering what the hell I am talking about. Well, very small plastic beads and ...
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Most of us have already tried or at least heard of soybeans. But what is it and how does it look? Is it healthy or is there just a "soybean hype"? And where and how is it produced? I want ...
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