by Marica Vakacola | Dec 2, 2013 | Education, schools, Uncategorized
15 students from Ivanhoe Grammar School, an independent, co-educational Anglican school with three campuses located in Melbourne’s north ditched their own holiday to help spread the message of conservation in the Mamanuca group of Islands. Accompanied by three...
by Marica Vakacola | Dec 2, 2013 | Turtle Conservation
“Swimming hundreds of miles across the vast ocean in search for familiar foraging grounds, only to encounter a tiger shark. Swimming frantically, escape is pronto to avoid becoming the tiger’s next meal .Thanks to the timely distraction from a big ray, a safe distance...
by Marica Vakacola | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
During a schoolies trip from Hong Kong to Mana Island Resort, a group of school students engaged themselves in various environment programs, which was rewarded instantly as they got a rare chance to see one of Fiji’s endangered and endemic species, the Fiji banded...
by Marica Vakacola | Dec 2, 2013 | Eco Tourism, Sustainability
MES conducted its bi-annual water sampling for the second phase of the year on the 16th of October, 2013. The annual water sampling is one of MES’s focal events which look at the issues affecting water quality within our member resorts and the surrounding Mamanuca...
by Marica Vakacola | Dec 2, 2013 | Turtle Conservation
A two day workshop was organized from the 21st – 22nd November at the University of The South Pacific, Institute of Applied Science Department, where partners and stakeholders met to review the Fiji Sea Turtle Recovery Plan (FSTRP). Organized by the World Wild Life...
