Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran, August 2011
Collecting in the southern Caspian Sea
Iran – Caspian Sea, May 2011 Heiko Bleher was invited to do research and a workshop with fishes in the southern Caspian Sea, in the region of Lahijan, while he gave seminars at the Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, also in…
Field trip to Mindoro Occidental
Philippines – Mindoro Island – 12-16 May, 2011 The continuation of Heiko Bleher’s research around the island of Mindoro, started in the southern city of San Jose. Also here Heiko had the full support of BFAR and the local authority,…
Field trip to Mindoro Oriental
Philippines – Mindoro Island – 9-12 May, 2011 The kind Director Gil A. Adora, CESO IV, of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has invited Heiko Bleher again to continue his work on Philippine endemic aquatic freshwater species.…
Giant Salamander in Guangxi Province
China, Guangxi Province, Huajiang, September 4, 2010 Andrias davidianus is the Giant Salamander still living in some parts of China, the Earth’s Largest Amphibian, a living fossil because it hasn’t changed much in 30 million years. Heiko had written extensively…
The search for unique gobies & loaches in China
China – Gunagxi Province, 6 September, 2010 On his recent filed trip in China Heiko Bleher was able to do some research in a 450 m high , fast flowing and untouched mountain stream were he was able to find…
The Search for Blind Cave Fishes in Guangxi
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…
Heiko Bleher discovers the largest natural river aquarium
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…
Caño Libertad
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…
Caño Tonnina
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…
Caño Sardiña
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…
