Just because plastic waste is collected doesn’t mean it will get recycled. How shifting the meaning of recycling is blinding us to see the painful truth about our part in plastic pollution: Plastic rubbish travels the world already before it enters the oceans. Rubbish collection and neglection I’ve been living […]
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Plastic Planet: Minimising plastic pollution
Indonesia’s garbage problem, community solutions to reduce plastic waste, legislation, and initiatives on production and use of plastic, behavioural changes and campaign pressure supported by NGOs and all of us who take action: Minimising plastic pollution. On our way back to Wakatobi last Monday we read about the problem of […]
Read MoreSich treiben lassen oder zwei Wasserratten in den Bergen
Ihr geht auch noch in eurem Urlaub tauchen, war die verdutzte Nachfrage anderer Gäste auf Lembeh, einer kleinen Insel im Nordosten Sulawesis (Indonesien), wo wir uns für sieben Tage mit unserer Kameraausrüstung austoben konnten. Nachdem wir den Luxus genießen, unserer Leidenschaft fast tagtäglich nachzugehen und die Stunden, die wir unter […]
Read MoreWebsite: Restart to connect and protect
This is the official restart of our website to live up to a part of our life mission: Connect and protect to transform the world (About us). The time is now Two and a half years of absence are coming to an end today. The main reason for not being […]
Read MoreWhere are you going?
As a traveller, you better get used to being asked where you are from, as this question comes up early in conversations no matter where you are going in the world. Direct Indonesians? Nevertheless, I was surprised to hear the Indonesian version “dari mana?” constantly when walking down the roads […]
Read MoreStay wild: Tourist attractions and beauty of nature
We’d like to invite everybody to enjoy the beauty of nature and stay wild by keeping an eye on tourist attractions involving animals wherever you go. In chains and cages We just read a disturbing story of two dugongs, mother and child. They were kept on a chain in a […]
Read MoreImpacts of deep-sea mining in Papua
In our first blog entry last year „Journey into the unknown“ we discussed how little is actually known about the impacts of the „first deep-sea mining Solwara 1, which aims to mine the Bismark seabed for high-grade copper and gold, in Papua New Guinea by Nautilus Minerals, a Canadian company“. […]
Read MoreMy arrival in Indonesia: Dig or dive?
My arrival in Indonesia During the flight to Indonesia at the beginning of December 2015, I read in my diving magazine Unterwasser about Bangka Island in the North of Sulawesi: Beautiful and diverse coral reefs just outside the famous Bunaken National Marine Park – less known, but very much worth […]
Read MoreIslands in the sky
The only way to explore the water world of Komodo Nationalpark: boat! But it’s more than just a way to travel. We enjoy the view of the islands in the sky before diving into the endless ocean and the sparkling sun on the water when getting back up after another […]
Read MoreWith happy regards from Komodo
A week ago raining season started in Labuan Bajo. Even though the land in all the Eastern parts of Indonesia badly needed the rain, it does have its downsides. Not only are the clouds blocking our precious sun, but it creates quite some runoff that together with rubbish is being […]
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