New pygmy gobies from the Bird’s Head bring fish species count to 1721 species! By Mark Erdmann A recent paper published by Rick Winterbottom (Royal Ontario Museum), Dita Cahyani (Udayana... Read More →
Newly Discovered Whale Shark Population Brings Tourism Potential to Indonesian Communities by Nita Yohana In late 2011, CI’s Mark Erdmann blogged about an exciting expedition tagging whale... Read More →
The Indonesian Throughflow: The Fifteen Thousand Rivers If Indonesia did not exist, the earth’s day would be significantly shorter than the approximately twenty-four hours to which we have become... Read More →
Cenderawasih Bay: Living Laboratory of Evolution Several marine biological surveys by the authors and colleagues during 2006-2010 at Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua uncovered a wealth of new... Read More →
Excerpted from Ecosystem Based Management in the Bird’s Head Seascape, Conservation International, et.al. The Bird’s Head Seascape is a refuge to four of the world’s seven sea turtle... Read More →
Southeast Misool is the largest and southern most marine protected area (MPA) in the Raja Ampat MPA network and rests within the Coral Triangle – the global center of marine biodiversity. The MPA... Read More →
This post initially appeared on Conservation Internationals’ blog “Human Nature” (conservation.org/blog) on December 17, 2013 By Shawn Heinrichs Recently returned from a manta ray research... Read More →