With continued rising ocean temperatures and increasingly frequent bleaching events, a long-term study from Japan has offered a hopeful insight: corals on artificial reefs recover significantly faster than those on natural ones (Tanaya et al 2025). In Naha Port, corals placed on…

You may have heard of the State of Nature report in conversation or in a lecture or a newspaper article but may not have looked into it further. Here we save you the trouble of reading the entire document with a bit…

In geology, time is divided not by years but by geological or paleontological events based on information from the strata (layers of rock in the Earth). The categories of geological time are listed in order below: Eon – the largest unit on…

Seeing a stag in the wild for the first time was a moment filled with an overwhelming sense of awe. The opening in the shrubbery revealed the stag with its towering antlers, intricately branched like a crown. Each step, deliberate and graceful,…

Five reasons why everybody should go on an expedition with Opwall regardless of scientific background! When approached about embarking on an expedition with Operation Wallacea, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. After all, this is a company that has published over 670…

Register for the talks here!   This year we will be having our first ever annual Optoberfest scientific mini-conference, held at our Opwall HQ in Lincolnshire, UK. Optoberfest is a chance for us to showcase some of the amazing science stories and…

I had so many amazing experiences during my time at Knepp. I got the chance to witness the release of juvenile storks into the wild, see a turtle dove, go on a bat safari and feel (and hear) bats flying overhead, have…

At our various sites all over the world, we are partnered with incredible communities who help make our projects possible. We feel very privileged to be able to visit and support these areas in order to protect the amazing wildlife found there,…

I have just returned from spending two weeks on a field ecology course run by Operation Wallacea at Knepp Estate in Sussex, southern England. To say it was an eye-opening experience would be an understatement. – You never quite know what you’ve…

Under the stack for Gatwick Airport is not the place you would expect to find a breeding hotspot of the UK’s fastest declining bird species, and yet this is now one of the best sites in the country to find the turtle…