Expeditions & Field trips by Heiko Bleher – by continent and country (in some countries also the states he sampled) – always with number of field trips and/or destinations:
AFRICA
ALGERIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
ANGOLA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – with 4x4)
BENIN: 1 (sampling)
BURUNDI: 3 (Photoreports & sampling – by boat and 4x4)
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
EGYPT: 2 (sampelings)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
ERITREA 1 (sampling)
ETHIOPIA: 5 (Photoreports & sampling)
BURKINA FASO: 2 (Photoreports & sampling with the Heikomobile)
CAMEROON: 6 (Photoreports & sampling – twice with the Heikomobile)
CONGO: 4 (Photoreports & sampling)
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – twice with the Heikomobile)
DJIBOUTI: 1 (sampling)
GABON: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
GAMBIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
GHANA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile and for the President)
GUINEA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
KENIA: 3 (Photoreport & sampling)
LAKE TANGANJIKA: 4 (Photoreports & sampling)
LESOTHO: 1 (Photoreports & sampling)
LIBERIA: 2 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile).
LIBYA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
MALAWI: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – on land and in the sea)
MALI: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
NIGERIA: 5 (Photoreports & sampling).
MAROCCO: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
MAURETANIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
MOZAMBIQUE: 2 (Photoreport & sampling – with a 4x4)
SENEGAL: 4 (Photoreport & sampling).
SIERRA LEONE: 2 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
SOMALIA: 1 (sampling)
SOUTH AFRICA: 4 (Photoreport & sampling)
SUDAN 1: (Photoreport & sampling)
TANZANIA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
TOGO: 1 (sampling)
TUNISIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
UGANDA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
ZAIRE (= Democratic Republic CONGO): 37 (Photoreports & sampling)
ZAMBIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
ZIMBABWE: 2 (Photoreports & sampling) Heiko completed in 2006 his 131th research destination in an African country
AMERICA North America:
CANADA: 4 samplings in the following states: Ontario (1), Manitoba (2) and Saskatchewan (1)
USA: 42 samplings in the following states: California (2), Nevada (2), New Mexico (2), Arizona (2), Utah (1), Arkansas (2), Colorado (2), Texas (3), Louisiana (3), Mississippi (2), Alabama (2), Georgia (4), Florida (5), Kentuky (1) Missouri (1), North Dakota (2), South Dakota (1), Wyoming (1), Montana (2) and Hawai’i (2)
MEXICO: 5 (Photoreports & sampling) Central America & Caribbean:
BELIZE 1 (Photoreports & sampling)
GUATEMALA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
HONDURAS: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
EL SALVADOR :1 (sampling)
NICARAGUA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
COSTA RICA: 4 (Photoreports & sampling)
PANAMA: 4 (Photoreports & sampling) South America:
COLOMBIA: 12 (Photoreports & sampling)
VENEZUELA: 10 (Photoreports & sampling)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 3 (samplings)
GUYANA: 5 (samplings)
SURINAME: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
FRENCH GUIANA: 2 (samplings)
BRAZIL: 403 photoreports & sampling in the following states: Amapá (1), Amazonas (318 – including the states Pará, Tocantins, Roraima, Acre, Rondonia), Maranhão (2), Rio Grande do Norte (1), Paraíba (1), Pernambuco (2), Bahia (2), Piauí (1), Minas Gerais (5), Goiás (12), Mato Grosso (33 – including Mato Grosso do Sul), Espirito Santo (2), Rio de Janeiro (10+), São Paulo (5), Rio Grande so Sul (4), Paraná (3) and Santa Catarina (1).
PARAGUAY: 4 (Photoreports & sampling)
URUGUAY: 3 (sampling)
ARGENTINA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
CHILE: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
BOLIVIA: 5 (Photoreports & sampling)
PERU: 15 (Photoreports & sampling)
ECUADOR: 2 (Photoreports & sampling) Heiko completed in 2006 his 539th research destination in an American country
EUROPA & MIDDLE EAST
Europe:
BULGARIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
CROATIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
ESTONIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
FRANCE: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
GERMANY: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
HUNGERIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
ITALIA: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
JUGOSLAWIA: 2 (samplings – also – with the Heikomobile)
PORTUGAL: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
RUSSIAN FEDERATION: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
SPAIN: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
SLOVENIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
TURKEY: 1 (Photoreport & sampling) Middle East:
AZERBAIJAN: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
GEORGIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
ISRAEL: 1 (Photoreport & sampling) Heiko completed in 2006 his 24th research destination in Europe & Middle East
CENTRAL ASIA
TURKMENISTAN: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
USBEKISTAN: 6 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
KAZAKHSTAN 2: (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
KYRGYSTAN: 3 (Photoreports & sampling – with the Heikomobile)
TAJIKISTAN: 1 (Photoreport & sampling – with the Heikomobile) Heiko completed in 2005 his 13th research destination Central Asia including four trips to the Aral Sea area
EURASIA – ASIA & FAR EAST
CHINA: 4 (Photographing & sampling)
PAKISTAN: 1 (sampling)
INDIA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
BANGLADESH; 1 (sampling)
MYANMAR: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
THAILAND: 5 (Photoreports & sampling)
LAO: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
KAMPUCHEA: 1 (sampling)
MALAYSIA: 3 (Photoreports & sampling)
SINGAPORE: 1 ((Photoreport & sampling)
HONG KONG: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
PHILIPPINES: 4 (Photoreports & sampling)
JAPAN: 2 (Photoreport & sampling)
KOREA: 2 (Photoreport & sampling)
TAIWAN: 2 (Photoreport & sampling)
Heiko completed in 2006 his 35th research destination in Asia & the Far East
AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA : 22 Photoreports & sampling in the following states: Queensland (6 – including Fraser Islands), NSW (2): South Australia (2), Victoria (3), Northern Territories (5), Tasmania (2), Three Hummock Island (1) and Outback (1)
BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND: 2 (Photoreports & sampling)
FIJI ISLANDS: 1 (sampling)
INDONESIA: 36 Photoreports and sampling in the following regions: Java (1), Sumatra (1), Kalimantan (2), Sulawesi (6), Molluccas (2), Aru islands (2), Bali (2) Irian Jaya (22 – including the islands Waigeo (2); Batanta (2); Misool (1); Biak (4); Selawati (2))
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 10 (Photoreports & sampling)
SALOMON ISLANDS: 1 (Photoreports & sampling)
NEW CALEDONIA: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
NEW ZEALAND: 1 (Photoreport & sampling)
Heiko completed in 2006 his 74th research destination in Australasia & Oceania
End of 2006 the total amount of collected and researched areas came to 817 in 111 diferent countries – but he visted already 163 countries…
Heiko is planning present and ahead and has more than 200 destination he still wants to research and sample before it is to late – most of them are threatened by habitat destruction:
2010-2011
AFRICA:
CAMEROON: the south eastern region
CONGO – DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: Kananga & Gemena regions
