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Linda and I spent the first 2 to 3 days organizing all the interviews, meetings with conservation initiatives etc. Despite the majority of our work been in Mombassa, there were a few interesting people and concepts we wished to better understand before leaving nairobi. One interesting idea and concept has revealed itself is brilliant, the [...]

With the car packed into the container it was time to have one final farewell dinner with Saeef and Supresh before heading out at the crack of dawn bound for Nairobbery, sorry I mean Nairobi. Gone are the days of no crime, being complacent about ones gear and walking the streets at night with cameras. [...]

IMPORTANT NEWS LINKS:
BBC ARTICLE ON THE TUNA BAN
TUNA BAN ARTICLE – MISSED OPPORTUNITY

So the fate of Bluefin Tuna came to head at the CITES meeting in Qatar this past week.
ABOUT CITES
CITES WEB PAGE LINK
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. [...]

welcome to the dubai boat show…..

We had to visit the boat show in Dubai as well,, it is a boat show, and I love boats. Not only that the show had representatives from all forms of marine activity. The Diving equipment was of interest to me, as some of our equipment needed some serious servicing [...]

Our time in Oman has unfortunately come to an end. Oman is a fantastic country unique in many ways. The Sultanate has modernized in the last 40 years making Oman a new nation and able to learn from mistakes made by other older nations, with respect to the marine environment. I was amazed to see [...]

The TREE Foundation, spearheaded by an inspirational Supraja Darhini, has for the first time in Indian history released two Olive Ridley turtles from Chennai with satellite transmitters on their backs. This is brilliant news, why?
. Data pertaining to the movement of animals helps in ultimately protecting them. With regards to marine turtles, mortalities are often [...]

Our 48 hour Oman experience, check it out:
48 HOURS IN OMAN
Remember all youtube video links at the top of the stats page:

Muscat seems to be the main area of concentration for us till we take our leave for the boat for Eastern Africa near the 10th March. Finally were getting our visas under wraps (we need another visa for the UAE , which is quite a debacle let me tell you-if anyone that is not on [...]

From Ras Al Jinz we toured around the South East and where saw a different side of the country.  We spent the night camping in the desert and riding camels, even elise managed to pick up an Arabic admirer that put her general wife-ing value at about 20 camels ,two sheep two cows and a [...]

From Muscat, we drove down South to the Ras Al Jinz Turtle Protectorate. Ras Al Jinz boasts the greatest density of nesting Green Turtles in the world. Also the site is unique as the green turtles nest throughout the year, an uncommon practice amongst sea turtles. The Protectorate area alone estimates 30 000 nesting green [...]