Biodiversity #2 – eels are fish but their dorsal fin and anal fins are joined to their caudal (tail) fin; and also, they don’t have scales like fish – but instead a mucous coating over their skin
Biodiversity #1 – The turtle: lives in water but breathes air. Doesn’t lay its eggs in water – it comes back to the beach where it was born to lay its eggs
To celebrate biodiversity in the marine life of Australia we’ll be bringing you a pretty diverse selection of aquatic critters from around the region – a new one each day.
Breaking news: WA EPA recommends the shark cull NOT go ahead, and WA Premier accepts the decision.
There’s been a lot of media attention lately on the drumlines in Western Australia, but often the situation on the east is largely ignored, despite the fact that there are more drumlines in Surfer’s Paradise alone than in the whole of Western Australia.
On our first visit to the Solomon Islands we were struck by 2 things. Incredible natural beauty and the awful effects of plastic pollution.
Diveplanit is very excited to announce the 10 finalists in Tourism & Events Queensland’s #SouthernGreatBarrierReef Instagram competition!
A giant manta flies past us seemingly in slow motion, with gnarled grey eyes staring through us as we kick along beside it. Meanwhile just 32 nautical miles away, harbour waters are so polluted that locals will no longer eat the seafood, and endangered dugongs and turtles are starving due to lack of seagrass.
We just got back from Indonesia and my head is still reeling as I write this (partly due to lack of sleep). We visited several, quite different diving destinations over the three weeks we were away, all good, but there’s one that sticks out in my mind like no other: Bangka, in northern Sulawesi.
One of nature’s wildest sexs shows hit the Great Barrier Reef last night and unabashed voyeurs turned out in droves to watch this incredibly rare event…
