Operation Wallacea - Marine research expedition to Indonesia

Hi - I'm Max, a 2nd Year Biology student at the University of Auckland, and I'm fundraising to cover the costs of a marine research expedition with 'Operation Wallacea'. Any support or help you could offer would be extremely useful and I'd like to thank you in advance for your generosity.

Operation Wallacea is a biodiversity and conservation management research organisation. The research is carried out in conjunction with academics. Operation Wallacea (charity number 1078362) provides research data to implement conservation management programmes.

Amongst the recent achievements of Operation Wallacea and the Operation Wallacea Trust are:

• develop biodiversity performance criteria for the UN REDD scheme to prevent deforestation.

• Discovered 30 new species of vertebrates and 3 species thought to have been extinct.

• Funded 26 PhD studentships covering aspects of biodiversity and conservation management

• Established marine research centres in the Indo-Pacific which is the most productive in terms of published research in SE Asia.

• Introduced monitoring of reef fish in marine sites in the Indo-Pacific, Indian and Caribbean

• Developed a sustainable reef fishery management project in Indonesia

• Packaged data sets for use in the classroom, in use in over 500 schools around the world.

If you have any questions or queries about any aspect of Operation Wallacea or would like some additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the Operation Wallacea office or check out the website at www.opwall.com or mail me at maxhithersay1@gmail.com