Written by Damian Lettoof Photo Courtesy of Dr William Earle Feature Photo Courtesy of Marina West My day started like every other ecologist: asleep in hammock deep in the jungle at Bala camp. Only mine was slightly different as I was recovering…

Written by and Photos Courtesy of Brandon A. Gross Greece is home to 6,000 islands and islets that are scattered throughout both the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Out of those islands, only 227 islands are inhabited by human populations. The island of…

Written by Dominic Andradi-Brown Photos Courtesy of Ally McDowell Feature Image courtesy of Andrew Laverty Fish play many roles on reefs, and can have important effects on corals and algae leading to changes on the reef itself. On Caribbean reefs (such as…

Over the Christmas period Opwall had it’s yearly photo competition and we finally have the winners! Bill Bailey was kind enough to pick our Top 3 photos and another winner was picked by the staff.  Bill had this to say about the…

Happy New Year to all! To celebrate the start of the new year Opwall has put together a list of some of the best camera trap and marine underwater camera footage we could find, including some wicked whale shark and boisterous bears!…

Written by and Photos Courtesy of Tom Brown I initially went on expedition with Operation Wallacea in 2013 to collect my dissertation data for my University degree in Environmental Science. I chose Honduras as my destination, shamefully because I hadn’t heard of…

Written by Katie Amey & Sarah Anderson Photos Courtesy of Katie Amey Following months of anticipation, we finally arrived at Ulwazi Lodge for three weeks of sun, surveys and spectacular sightings. We were immediately immersed in our African surroundings, and awoke the next…

Written by and Photos Courtesy of Alejandro Usobiaga   The Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia is home to 75% of known coral species and accounts for over half of the world’s reefs, as well as supporting an estimated 120 million people. Indonesia…

Written by Juan Mula Photos Courtesy of Andrea Gear, Erin Cubitt & Ioan Smart End of the season is here and it seems almost impossible that I have been in Mexico for 2 months already. As an ornithologist working with Operation Wallacea I…

Written by Jack Laverick Photos Courtesy of Jack Laverick, Brian O’Sullivan and Ali McDowell Utila is one of the larger marine sites offered by OpWall. What makes it special for us is that the North shore of the island is on the…

Written by and Photos Courtesy of Saadia Khan I recently joined a research dissertation programme through Operation Wallacea, which are an organisation that run a series of biological and conservation programmes in remote locations across the world with specific wildlife conservation aims…

Written by and Photos Courtesy of Morgan Welsh I hate flying, but nothing was stopping me from going to Africa. So when I boarded the aeroplane for the 12 hour flight all by myself, I was a bag of nerves. A mixture…