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    • The Humphead Maori Wrasse is one of the largest coral fish in the world. Its total length (TL) ranges from 2-3cm in juveniles to 250cm in adult fishes (just abit longer than the world's tallest basketball player). An adult wrasse can weigh up to 191kg (almost as heavy as a sumo wrestler!!). Male Humphead maori wrasses are on average 1.4 times larger than the females who can only grow to a maximum of 100cm TL. Adult Humphead maori wrasses can be easily distinguished from other fishes by the prominent bulbous hump on the forehead. This bulbous hump is not so obvious in juveniles.

      Humphead Maori Wrasse
    • The Kadavu parrot is the most distinctive of Fiji's colourful Shining Parrots. It is a large parrot, similar in size to Fiji's other two endemic Shining Parrots, measuring up to 45 cm from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail. The colouration of the Kadavu parrot distinguishes it from the other two species. Its head, neck and underparts are a bright scarlet with a blue collar that extends across back of the neck; the back and the rump are a bright shining green. The flight feathers and tail are green, strongly suffused with blue. The bill and feet are black, and the irises are orange in colour. Males and females are similar, however, the bill of males is larger and the head is more square-shaped than females.

      Kadavu Parrot
    • The Tagimaucia is a liana (woody vine), that forms thickets high up in the canopy, much similar to the growth of the duva, Derris trifoliata. The inflorescences occur on the stems or in association with the leaves. The flowers are very striking with white petals and filaments; rich purple anthers; yellow basal lobes, and inflorescence branches and bracts that are scarlet or deep red in colour. The leaves of the Tagimaucia grow in a similar manner to that of Mikania micrantha (mile-a-minute or wabosucu) in that the leaves begin from the start of the stem.

      TAGIMAUCIA
    • The Fiji petrel is a small, all black-brown petrel with a short neck and stout black bill giving it a chunky, thickset appearance. It measures up to 28cm from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail. In flight, the underwing has a pale silvery sheen. It has a pale washed-out blue tarsi; mostly black feet with a pale blue patch on centre of each web.

      FIJI PETREL
    • Fiji Banded Iguana adults are 136-193 mm SVL in size, while the hatchlings range from 65-83 mm SVL. Banded iguanas are generally more slender and smaller than their endemic relative the Fiji Crested Iguana, and have a smoother appearance. Banded iguanas have a single row of small scales, which look like a row of short sharp teeth running from their nape to the base of their tail, but on the Crested Iguana, these are much enlarged and form the crest from which it derives its name.

      FIJI BANDED IGUANA
    • The Hawksbill turtle has a distinctly narrow heart-shaped shell, and often has a distinct vertebral keel. Like the Green turtles, Chelonia mydas, the Hawksbill turtles belong to the family of hard-shelled turtles, Cheloniidae. The average length of an adult Hawksbill turtle's shell or carapace is 70cm, and can grow up to 1m in length. The carapace is dark brown in colour with mottled lighter and darker patterning. The scutes are strongly overlapping in adults, and not in hatchlings and juveniles. The edge of the carapace is serrated posteriorly. On the carapace are 5 vertebral plates, and 4 inframarginal plates on the bridge and four costal plates on each side of the carapace.

      HAWKSBILL TURTLE
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    We aim to generate enthusiasm and local expertise in all matters associated with wildlife conservation and management through raising the level of conservation and environmental awareness and education.

    Our children are particularly important as for too long, they have had minimal opportunity to learn of the remarkable natural heritage of our islands and seas.

    We recognize too, the key role to be played by Fiji's indigenous landowners and NatureFiji-MareqetiViti intends to promote much better understanding and awareness of Fiji’s wildlife.

    We hope to grow an active membership that will assist in conservation projects, wildlife management and island restoration projects.
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    NatureFiji-MareqetiViti's sago palm conservation efforts are published in Environmental Management, an international scientific journal. ...
    05/04/2012
    Fiji Celebrates World Wetlands Day at the Upper Navua Conservation Area, Fiji’s Ramsar Site. ...
    28/03/2012
    New record for the Blossom bat, Notopteris macdonaldi, at Nabukelevu in the Namosi province. ...
    27/03/2012
    (NEWSLETTER)
    2012 NFMV Work Plan and Live Projects The NFMV team kicked off 2012 with our annual planning meet at the Raintree Lodge, Colo-i-Suva, from the 4-5th of January. The Strategic planning meet, is an impo ...
    12/03/2012
    NatureFiji-MareqetiViti participated in the International Secondary School 2012 Careers Day held on the 8th of March. ...
    12/03/2012
    MareqetiViti had the most charming experience of presenting to students from the Gospel Blind School on Thursday 8th of March, 2012. ...
    12/03/2012
    NatureFiji-MareqetiViti is proud to announce the official launch of our Taveuni project and the opening of the office. ...
    12/03/2012
    (ENDANGERED SPECIES OF THE MONTH)
    Recently described as a new species, this striking forest palm is currently known from a single population in the Nabukavesi area of Viti Levu's southern highlands. The species was formerly lumped ...
    08/03/2012
    Managing Director for McDonalds Fiji subscribes as a 'Corporate GOLD' member in 2012. ...
    08/03/2012
    International volunteer, Joanne Malotaux, joins the NFMV team to assist with bat surveys on Taveuni, Vanua Levu and Viti Levu. ...
    08/03/2012
    A Tahiti Petrel landed in Nawaikama, the 2nd ever record from Gau ...
    08/03/2012
    Former Birdlife Fiji Programme Conservation Officer, Tuverea Tuamoto joins the NFMV crew this year as the EU Invasives Project Officer. ...
    14/02/2012
    (ENDANGERED SPECIES OF THE MONTH)
    The yasi is a small shrub or tree that grows no bigger than 10 m tall on average. The yasi was heavily exploited during Fiji's early trading period and its natural distribution is now unknown. Howe ...
    10/02/2012
    Rentokil Pest Control Fiji becomes our eighth corporate member overall, and our first for this year. ...
    08/02/2012
    Two Fiji Sago palm restoration sites have been selected as part of NFMV's Sago palm project for 2012. ...
    03/02/2012
    The NFMV team enters 2012 with anticipation as several new projects begin implementation whilst others draw to an end over the year. ...
    03/02/2012
    All the staff and the director of NatureFiji-MareqetiViti threshed out the work plan for 2012 in the lush green surrounds of the Raintree Lodge. ...
    03/02/2012
    Fiji Petrel Officer, Eleazar O'Connor, spent several weeks in Australia training with petrel expert, Nick Carlyle ...
    02/02/2012
    Limited first stock of the second edition of Mai Veikau: Tales of Fijian Wildlife have been published by NFMV with Arcadia funding. ...
    22/12/2011
    The Peach palms planted this time last year are growing well on the Sigatoka Valley farmland, under the care of Rudra Nand. ...
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    Balaka diffusa
    Recently described as a new species, this striking forest palm is currently known from a single population in the Nabukavesi area of Viti Levu's southern highlands. The species was formerly lumped with another 'large seeded' palm Balaka macrocarpa which is found in several populations on Vanua Levu. Balaka diffusa is not yet recognised as an endangered species by IUCN Red List - but it is undoubtedly Critically Endangered.
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    Mai Veikau: Tales of Fijian Wildlife
    NatureFiji-MareqetiViti has the pleasure of publishing Director, Dr. Dick Watling’s, revamped edition of the “Mai Veikau: Tales of Fijian Wildlife”, a book that was originally published in 1986.

    This little gem contains 32 short stories recounting local folklore and providing substantiating scientific background to these traditional myths. The book is beautifully illustrated in water colours and pencil art of the Fijian wildlife described within. Many of these stories were relayed to the author around the tanoa or dari.
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    Newsletter 12
    2012 NFMV Work Plan and Live Projects The NFMV team kicked off 2012 with our annual planning meet at the Raintree Lodge, Colo-i-Suva, from the 4-5th of January. The Strategic planning meet, is an important annual exercise, as each year the team reviews the projects of the year before planning for the year ahead.
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