We are proud to see the University of Essex and Universitas Hasanuddin renew their long-standing MoU to scale up marine science, capacity building, and tech-driven reef monitoring across Southeast Asia. Highlights included guest lectures showcasing Operation Wallacea survey methods and new tools…

It is important to start thinking about your kit list early, and Christmas can be a great time to get help with finding things from friends and family. I’d advise you make a list of the items you don’t currently have before…

It’s been a while but we are back with another new science spotlight blog, highlighting some more of the fantastic work done by our academic partners and students. In this edition, we showcase another set of brand new species descriptions – this…

RARElab: A new Opwall collaboration towards Rediscovering and Protecting Lost and Understudied Species We are facing a biodiversity crisis, although resolving this is hampered by how little we know about global diversity. Despite discovering approximately 18,000 new species each year, scientists estimate…

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…

Welcome to our new blog series, where we will take a closer look at some of the incredible and fascinating research carried out at OpWall sites around the world. Scientific research is right at the heart of what Operation Wallacea does, and…

As my daily 3:30am alarm goes off and I use my head torch to stumble through camp (which is slowly fading after three weeks in the jungle), I savour my enormous bowl of cornflakes to sustain me for a day of chasing…

Prior to coming to South Africa with Operation Wallacea, I was apprehending going to the wildlife part of the country. However, after the warm welcome that the staff of the Somkhanda Reserve and Sodwana Bay offered us, as well as the amazing…

My name is Erin, and I recently returned from my two-week Terrestrial and Marine trip in Honduras. What made this trip so memorable to me was my mindset during and in my reflections following it. Embracing change and challenge allows experiences like…

I love a little dip into nature. Knepp was like a mental spa but the treatments comprised flapjack wars and inflatable mattresses. I felt incredibly connected – to the people I met, the animals, the land, the plants… I never felt impassioned…