tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64726867645732541782026-10-10T02:46:53.254-07:00A blog about Waitabu Marine Park, Taveuni, Fiji Islands, by Marine Ecology Fiji. Waitabu Marine Park offers 2 guided tours the Cultural Experience Tour with a Bilibili ride (traditional raft), a guided snorkelling tour with tea and refreshments while being serenaded by local musicians, they also offer a Backpackers Tour with a guided boat trip and guided snorkeling trips.stuartinfijihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05616942892213653449noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6472686764573254178.post-15661658439089847622020-11-19T18:12:00.001-08:002020-11-19T18:12:25.177-08:00

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The ICRI International Year of the Reef 2018 is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, and to motivate people to take action to protect them. All individuals, corporations, schools, governments, and organizations are welcome and actively encouraged to participate in IYOR 2018. (Image courtesy of Ocean Agency /

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The FLMMA Annual General Meeting was held in the chiefly village of Bua Lomanikoro on Friday 24th, November, 2017. However, The week was also a fruitful one after the 14 Provincial Community Representatives put together their Annual Workplan during the Annual Lessons Learning and Sharing Workshop starting on Monday 20th till  Thursday 23rd Nov 2017. 20th to 24th November 2017, Fiji #

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Preparing to open the Temporary Tabu (Tabu Tara) in Waitabu MPA Waitabu’s marine protected area (Tabu Vakadua) is very well known, as they have been preserving it since April 1998, and no fishing of any kind is allowed there. In June 2012 a new experiment was started in an attempt to create a sustainable fishery on a stretch of reef adjoining the Tabu area. This area is called a Tabu Tara (

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During the first week of March, 2012, Waitabu Village played host to a group of dedicated local marine lovers from surrounding healthordisease.com villages who came together to take part in the annual marine Survey.

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Last week we had one of supporters and friends, Helen Sykes comes to visit and go on a snorkel trip. Great snorkel trip in the Park This time she brought along her sister and brother-in-law, Christine and Larry all the way from Colorado Springs in Colorado USA. Helen and Christine’s late father Derek Sykes and his Lancaster Rotary Club in the UK funded the solar power in the MArine Park

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As part of the Fund Raising for TC Winston earlier this year, a portion of the funds were used for the long term cyclone preparedness for this up coming year in the form of d.light A1 Solar Lanterns for everyone. These were the final payments used from the the funds in the Friends of Waitabu TC Winston Appeal. A total of 240 d.light A1 Solar Lanterns were

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Helen Sykes, one of our long time supporters and friends, came to visit and go on a snorkel trip and here is some video from that visit. This time she brought along her sister and brother-in-law, Christine and Larry all the way from Colorado Springs in Colorado USA. #WaitabuFiji #FijiNow #PureTaveuni

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Happy Birthday to the man who started both H and I on our journey into the natural world we live our lives with our conservation and eco principles... Sir David Attenborough, the voice of nature.

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This national park protects over 80% of Taveuni's total area, covering about 150 sq km (57 sq mi) of rainforest and coastal forest. The park includes the three Tavoro Waterfalls near the falls' visitor centre, each with natural swimming pools. The first waterfall is about 24m (78ft) high and only 10 minutes' walk along a flat cultivated path.  The second waterfall, 30 or 40 minutes along,

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This area has decent snorkelling and a gorgeous white-sand beach. It is only possible to visit with a guide. Waitabu village has set up a half-day tour ($60 per person) that includes a guide, snorkelling, a bilibili (lashed bamboo raft) ride, and afternoon tea. There’s also a Backpackers’ Tour ($40 per person) with guided snorkelling. You must book in advance; trips depend on daily tides. You

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Kun Ma, a student intern from Inner Mongolia, China, spent 6 weeks in Fiji in October and November 2014. Kun spent 2 weeks in Suva, assisting with data entry for the Great Fiji Shark Count , then travelled to the island of Taveuni where she lived with villagers in Waitabu village for 4 weeks, carrying out projects related to the sustainable management of the Waitabu Marine Park

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A friend just gifted us an old copy of Sport Diving Magazine – January 2004 and in it is a great article about the moorings being installed at Waitabu Marine Park. Here is the article in its entirety! Look how young everyone is! Blast from the Past – Sport Diving Magazine – January 2004

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Waitabu Marine Park has added a new facility to its existing snorkel experience – a double kayak that will allow guests to explore the larger area of sea front, and the mangrove river at Wai settlement.Kayak launchNew kayak added to Waitabu Project

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It was a very exciting day for Waitabu village on Taveuni when the Lindblad Expeditions/ National Geographic ship Orion came to visit.Spending 2 days on Taveuni, they visited two of the Bouma Heritage Park projects, Tavoro Waterfalls and Waitabu Marine Park. Full story here: Lindblad Expeditions – National Geographic visits Waitabu, Fiji:

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This production captures the success story of one the longest community-based marine protected area in Fiji that Conservation International — Fiji  has focused many studies on.In 2007, Conservation International — Fiji established a Science to Action Program to support effective decision makings on resource management through the use of applied natural and social

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Vote for us in Ocean Action Project 2013Help us get the financial support we need to run the next Great Fiji Shark Count!Voting is on for the Ocean Action Project 2013 and we need your vote for The Great Fiji Shark Count! Projects will be chosen by the Project AWARE community through a voting system via Facebook.Now we need our supporters and community cast their 

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From Washington, DC in the US and says she's from "a big, blended, modern family". Juliane Diamond with the Tui Kubulau, Ratu Apenisa Vuki, when she went to visit Kubulau on her recent two-week trip to Fiji.  Juliane Diamond, a program manager with Coral Reef Alliance, an NGO based in San Francisco with projects in Fiji describes her family of nine by saying: "My biological mother was a

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+ Enlarge this imageSemesa Lase of Namara, Tailevu, signing a pledge not to fish, buy or eat the two types of fish, kawakawa and donu, at the SeaWeb's Pledge To Save The Kawakawa campaign in Suva yesterday. Picture: ELIKI NUKUTABUA CAMPAIGN was launched yesterday to boost fish stocks, specifically that of the kawakawa and donu.The campaign, which is known as the "4FJ Campaign", involves members

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ACCORDING to survey results carried out by the Marine Ecology Fiji last year, marine life has really improved in the Waitabu Marine Park. The organisation's official website recorded the following information: Sea Cucumber (Bech-de-mer):Despite the challenges of poaching over the last few months, which has now been addressed by the local police, sea cucumbers have doubled in quantity from last

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CONSERVATION efforts initiated by the World Conservation Society throughout the Wailevu coast in Cakaudrove have been labelled a success. According to the vanua liaison officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Sirilo Dulunaqio, the Reef to Ridge Sustainable Project had been widely accepted by chiefs within the district of Wailevu. Mr Dulunaqio said the Reef to Ridge concept was inclusive

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There is an urgent need for the villagers to learn about the management of their land and marine resources says the Ministry of Fisheries. At a Fisheries Biodiversity and Fish Wardens workshop last week, villagers from the district of Verata in the province of Tailevu were taken through the protection of their respective fishing areas and sustainable fishing.Fisheries officer Jope Kavua said

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