South Western Australia, June 2009 After the 8th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Fremantle, Western Australia, Sven O. Kullander and Heiko Bleher explored the extreme south western part of Australia in search for the only neck-bending fish on Earth, and its…
Australia – South Western Region, June 2009 The Salamander fish, Lepidogalaxias salamandroides, an endemic to south western Australia – only found at a very limited area – is probably one of the most unique fishes evolved on Planet Earth –…
Greece, 24-25 April 2009 Heiko Bleher was invited to give lectures in Athens, Greece, on the weekend April 24-25. Nidal Rezeq also invited him for a short field trip. Here are some exiting photos of this research and also a…
Turkey – Asian Side, April 2009 Mustafa Kahraman of Neptun-Fora, the TROPICAL’s representative for the last 18 years, was so kind to give to Heiko Bleher a new Scoda to do his field trip in search for still not described…
UAE – Dubai, March 2009 It was impossible to come to the UAE only for Lectures & TV-interviews, Heiko Bleher had to collect the only freshwater fish species known and Natasha photograph it… The busy city of…
India – Northeast, February 2009 During Heiko Bleher’s recent expedition to the northeast of India, together with Sanjay Kumar Das, Peter Guennel and Natasha Khardina, they researched 17 aquatic habitats throughout the region – even in remote Nagaland and found…
Field trip, November 2008 The Peninsula Malaysia has become almost entirely a gigantic field of palm-oil and also rubber tree plantation – very little primary rain forest remains, not even much anymore at Cameron Hills…
Brazil, August 2008 Apistogramma species are often misunderstood. These dwarf cichlids, a favourite fish for many aquarists and hobbyists around the globe, live in nature in almost all (South American) habitats only one year, like many annual fishes. They spawn…
South America – Rio Jutaí, August 2008 After the research in the amazing Rio Jutaí right hand affluent of the Rio Solimões in 2004, but much further up with 5 companions. The Rio Jutaí is very little explored from the…
Colombia-Brazil – Leticia and Caldéron, 17-20 August 2008 For the second time Heiko Bleher researched the Columbian and Brazilian side of the region only before him visited by the some French architect Jobert and the Brazilian ethnologist Harald Schulz. The…
Brazil – Alto Aracá, 2-14 August 2008 Because the last Aracá expedition was extremely successful Heiko Bleher went back this year, but much further up into the Rio Preto to Brazil’s highest waterfall, unknown on any map coming down from…
