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 […]
When going through my Youtube Channel a few days ago, I noticed that my Physioshark documentary had hit about 97k views! Wow! Not long ago, and I was tweeting the documentary to reach 50k and […]
A few days ago, I received the wonderful news that I was accepted as an Emerging League Member of the International League of Conservation Photographers!! It means a lot to me, and I have worked […]
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 […]
I had an exciting day yesterday (30th January 2020) as we opened my photo exhibition ‘Being Alive’ at the Alliance Francaise here in Suva. Its been a while in the planning and as any artist […]
A few days ago I finished my last project: a short film about the My Fiji Shark Initiative by Beqa Adventure Divers (BAD) with support from the United Nations Development Program Office (UNDP Pacific) here […]
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 […]
Finally, after more than a years work excluding the actual fieldwork itself, my first scientific publication was published yesterday in Ecology & Evolution. Titled “Discovery of a multispecies shark aggregation and parturition area in the […]
Edit 2019: Fishact was formerly known by the name The Black Fish. Recently I spent two days with the NGO Fishact documenting their citizen inspector workshop in Hamburg. Besides the theoretical part of the workshop, […]
UPDATE: Good News!! All recommendations were adopted by CITES!! Silkies, threshers and devil rays are now listed on Appendix II ! t the moment representatives of 183 member parties are gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa, to […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands.
This page is dedicated to his work, projects, and assignments and to share some behind-the-scenes footage.
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