by Heiko Bleher – In a tiny stream, Sungai Mungkat, in Western Kalimantan near the border with Sarawak, Indonesia Heiko Bleher found in less than one square metre of water surface and hardly 30 cm deep (see red square) a…
INTERZOO HISTORY
The 30th INTERZOO May 22-25, 2008 was not only a special celebration date, but also the largest INTERZOO ever in its 55 years of history. It started as a small zoological market (“Zoobörse”) in Frankfurt am Main in 1953, commenced…
Marajó
The dream of paradise lost is as old as mankind. As early as Sumerian mythology we encounter the concept of a place where animals live together in amity and Man is immune to disease – and we still dream of…
Lake Wanam
Deep in an eternal sea of greenery lies a jewel of a lake, far from the outside world and contact with “civilised” man, a place where, as far as history is concerned, no-one had ever set foot until recently.…
Discus – an introduction
Introduction text from Bleher’s Discus Volume 1 “Brown Scalare”, “Blue Scalare”, “The Aristocrat of the Aquarium”, “The Crested Cichlid”, “Pompadour Fish”, “King of Fishes”, “King of the Amazon”, “King of the Aquarium” and many more such names have been given…
