China, Guangxi Province, 2-4 September 2010 The invitation for Heiko Bleher to do research in Guangxi came as a surprise shortly after his and Natasha’s daughter Amanda Flora had been born July 15th, 2010. Prof. Chen Zaizhong from the Shanghai…

On two expeditions in 2007 and 2008 Heiko Bleher was able to discover for the first time in history by white man what he believes is the largest natural freshwater aquarium in the world. It is a crystal clear, over…

Colombia, 10 December 2009 There are places still on this planet which have never been explored, creeks which seem to have been there for millions of years untouched and the Caño de la Libertad in the Amazon state of Colombia…

Colombia – Caquetá, 7 December 2009  This creek Heiko explored by walking over land with Natasha and Alirio and reached this almost untouched small waterway discovering many miniature fish species in a mini-habitat. This is to show how little space…

Colombia – Inirida, 2 December 2009 Heiko Bleher did research for the first time with the native fisherman Pedro from Inirida and Senhor Ernesto in a very remote small creek called Caño Sardiña, a right-had tributary of the upper Caño…

Colombia – Atabapo, 28 November 2009 One of Heiko’s 2009 Amazon expedition – which he does every year since his childhood with his mother – took him to the middle Atabapo and its tributaries. While searching again for Pterophyllum altum,…

Philippines – Gonzaga, 16 November 2009 The regional Director for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Mrs. Jovita P. Ayson had suggested to Heiko Bleher to do research in the unspoiled and untouched Wangag River in Gonzaga, Peña Blanca.…

Philippines – Cagayan, 15 November 2009 Heiko was invited by BFAR (Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources), the Director Malkolm I. Sarmiento, Jr. to do research on the Philippine freshwater habitats and its fishes. Heiko started in the north-eastern part…

Iran – Strait of Hormoz region, September 2009 Heiko’s most recent field trip was to collect the monotypic and most eastern found Cichlidae in south-western Iran restricted to a few locations around the Strait of Hormoz. The area is drying…

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 –…