FIJI ISLANDS
Fiji Islands
Living and working in Fiji I have spent time in various parts of the island archipelago consisting of more than 300 islands. Fiji is home to less than one million people but has a lot to offer – above and below the water surface.
WWF Turtle Monitoring around Dravuni Island in Fiji
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 ...
WWF Turtle Monitoring on Yadua Taba Island in Fiji
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 ...
WWF Turtle Monitoring on Kavewa Island in Fiji
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 ...
Turtles in Fiji – A brief history and law overview
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 ...
Birds of the Yasawa Islands | Bird Life in Fiji
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 ...
Birds of Momi Bay in Fiji | Assignment for the Marriott Resort
Just recently I was on a beautiful assignment: documenting the birds of Momi Bay for the Marriott Resort. The assignment also included the design of a coffee table book according to the Marriott Brand Guidelines which will be distributed to some ...
Ocean Photographer Of The Year 2022 // I made it to the finals!
Very cool to have one of my images I took during the physioshark assignment in French Polynesia in 2019 as a finalist in the Human Connection Category of the 2022 Ocean Photographer of the Year Competition organised by Oceanographic. Although ...
What makes me really sad… street dogs in Fiji
As some of the readers might know, my time living in Fiji is approaching five years in total - crazy! I have spent nearly a seventh of my life on this island in the South Pacific Ocean. And while I ...
New paper & film | First photos of oceanic manta rays in Fiji
The last few months have been pretty intense, with lots of different assignments, travel and the usual daily ups and downs. After three years in Fiji, I flew home to Germany in May for a much-needed visit to see friends ...
World’s First Footage of Pink-Billed Parrotfinches in Fiji
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 ...
