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Fiji’s Rainbow Reefs

  • The currents bring plankton streaming past the soft corals for all the hungry mouths of the small Anthias fish.
  • A swift moving school of Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphreutes. Their banded pattern may seen to make them conspicuous, but when they move quickly as a group, it may be confusing and make it harder for prey to target an individual.
  • Emperor shrimp on Leopard Sea Cucumber.
  • Two fish as one: This Trevally is using the Clown Triggerfish as a stalking horse to sneak up on prey that ignore the harmless triggerfish.
  • A blue-spotted grouper makes a lunge on a reef in Fiji.
  • A steephead parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos) nibbling on algae encrusted coral.
  • Shrimp on a tubasraea coral.
  • Bleached staghorn and other corals on a shallow reef in the Fiji Island. Note that the white areas are bleached (have lost their algae), but brown areas have retained their algae. Reefs can recover from this type of partial bleaching and this one did.
  • Long-jawed mackerel straining a meal through their gill baskets.
  • A giant manta (Manta birostris) with a golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus) in its wing.
  • A coral reef with a variety of soft and hard corals and anthias and golden damselfish. Vatu-i-Ra Channel, Fiji.
  • Well-camouflaged wire coral shrimp graze and hide on their host.
  • Triplefin fish resting on a hard coral
  • A variegated lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) waits camouflaged for small fish.
  • A clownfish nestled in the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone.
  • A red-margined wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus) in a soft coral’s polyps.
  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
  • A Harlequin Ghost Pipefish hides in a clump of whip coral, very well camouflaged.

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Latest from Instagram:

Chasing rainbows and diving the word’s richest c Chasing rainbows and diving the word’s richest coral reefs…. Since today is World Biodiversity Day, I wanted to share some video from one of my favorite places - the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua, Indonesia.  I’ve always been drawn to the planet’s most diverse habitats - rain forests and coral reefs.  I’m fascinated by the diversity of life forms that they can support, and the wonders of evolution that created all that diversity, and the mystery of how it all coexists.  It’s fascinating and wonderful to spend time in these places.  I’ve devoted my career to telling the stories of wild places like this and the creatures that inhabit them, and spreading the word on the importance of protecting nature.  Raja Ampat has been documented to have the highest diversity of corals and fish of any place in the world. 

Thanks for your interest and support, and I hope that together we can make a difference for the wild places and biodiversity of our planet that is worth saving in its own right, but also critical for a healthy planet!

And take note fellow underwater photographers.  There is still space on our photo workshop this August in Raja Ampat if you want to experience this amazing place and work on your photography.  Follow the link in my bio for details.  Responsible eco-tourism helps to protect these reefs.

Video by @TimLaman and @RussLaman.  #WorldBiodiversityDay, #CoralReefs, #RajaAmpatIslands, #ProtectOurPlanet, #MarineConservation, #OceanBiodiversity, #IndonesiaNature, #UnderwaterParadise, #ConservingCoralReefs, #SustainableTourism, #BiodiversityHotspot, #ExploreIndonesia @papua_explorers

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