If you follow our blogs, then you might recall the blogs about harvesting sea cucumbers in Fiji. In Tonga, they are also collecting sea cucumbers and processing them. When the sea cucumbers are processed and dried, they are called beche-de-mer.
The coral reef education team is underway while on the Global Reef Expedition in Tonga. On the first day, five different environmental education programs were conducted in Ha’apai throughout the Lifuka district, including one secondary school and four primary schools.
On our second day of diving we had our first encounter with a sea snake. While most of the 62 described species are true aquatic snakes, we observed one of the more primitive snakes, banded sea kraits, Laticauda colubrina. This
The Kingdom of Tonga contains some of the most unique and extensive coral reef environments found in the central south Pacific, with over 1500 square kilometers of reef area. These Tonga coral reefs are located due east of the 35,000
Roughly one billion people around the world depend on fish from the sea for protein, this makes it vital to understand and manage fish stocks properly. Although there are many factors that affect fish populations, such as climate change, ocean
As the year draws to a close we thought we’d look back at what we’ve been doing over the last twelve months. As part of our multi-year Global Reef Expedition we spent 2013 conducting field research in the Pacific Ocean.
