Matava Resort today announced that it has been recognised as a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame winner. The Certificate of Excellence award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor. The ‘Hall of Fame’ was created to honour those businesses that have earned a Certificate of Excellence for five consecutive years.Continue Reading …
Matava Wins Fiji Excellence in Tourism Award
Matava Resort is proud to be announced as a winner at the AON Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards in the category ‘Sustainability’ as a result of our policies on sustainability and the environment. The 18th annual AON Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards celebrates the outstanding performance of those who have made exceptional contributions to the Fiji tourism industry in 2014.Continue Reading …
Fiji Airways invites you to find a ‘Home Away From Home’
Some of us never leave our homes or home towns – or never travel overseas. So we wanted to share how Fiji Airways recently gave three deserving families a truly extraordinary and unforgettable home away from home experience. Continue Reading …
Heritage Expeditions
Today most people fly across the Pacific and Melanesian Islands completely oblivious to the unique islands and ecosystems over which they pass. Rarely is there an opportunity to sail to and explore some of the lesser known islands in company with a team of expert historians and naturalists.
Heritage Expeditions offers the serious ornithologist one of several cruises to see the rarely visited Kermadec Islands, Tonga (including the remote northern island of ‘Tin Can’ or Nuiafo’ou) the outer islands of Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. These islands boast lush tropical rainforest packed with many endemic birds and other wildlife. The seas surrounding the islands are some of the richest in the world in terms of marine diversity.
Fiji Petrels get an X-ray
News from Nature Fiji – Mareqeti Viti,
Three Fiji Petrel specimens were X-rayed to determine their age.Continue Reading …
Fijian local conservation group receives global award
Congratulations to Natewa Tunuloa Important Bird Area in Fiji!
A local group working to conserve the Natewa Tunuloa Important Bird Area in Fiji has won the prestigious Equator Prize for 2012. “The Sisi Initiative stood out among more than 800 entries as a remarkable demonstration of local development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities”, said Eileen de Ravin – manager of the Equator Initiative.Continue Reading …
Fiji Petrel Detector Dogs Make a Major Discovery
It looked like ‘just another forested hillside’ but Bob and Tar – the Fiji Petrel detector Dogs proved otherwise – they found the first significant
It is extremely hard work quartering the steep forested hillsides of Gau with the detector dogs and where the dogs go, the handlers have to follow. Eleazar O’Conner and Poasa Qalo have taken the dogs up hills and down slopes which show no signs that anyone has ever been there before. But all the forest on Gau has to be methodically checked for nesting petrels. Nearly four months of searches had so far produced 8 burrows either occupied of being excavated during nocturnal visits by their owners. All were known or considered to be Collared Petrel nests.Continue Reading …
Fiji Petrel Interview
I am pleased to announce a short interview with the main players of the recent discovery at sea of Fiji Petrel that I reported last week. Both Hadoram Shirihai and Tony Pym have kindly answered my questions. I meant to send this earlier, but had to leave for Cuzco for a few days.
If you have additional questions to ask Hadoram and Tony, please put them in the comment field and I will forward them.
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Matava Eco Adventure Resort earns 2012 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence
Honoured as a Highly Rated Resort as Reviewed by Travellers on the World’s Largest Travel SiteContinue Reading …
10 Days of Seabird Documentation in Yasayasa Moala
NatureFiji-MareqetiViti recently took part in a seabird survey in Yasayasa Moala with Birdlife International-Pacific Secretariat.
On the invitation of Birdlife International-Pacific Secretariat, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti participated in a seabird survey amongst the islands of Moala, Totoya and Matuku. The results obtained, revealed that the waters between the islands of Totoya, Matuku and Moala are found to be important for seabirds, as a fair number of petrels were documented, namely the Tahiti petrel, Mottled petrel, and Collared Petrel, in the months between late April and early May. The most significant find was the sighting of a Fiji Petrel between the island of Totoya and Matuku, becoming the 3rd ever sighting recorded of this rare seabird.Continue Reading …
