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…

Colombia – Atabapo, 28 November 2009 One of Heiko’s 2009 Amazon expedition – which he does every year since his childhood with his mother – took him to the middle Atabapo and its tributaries. While searching again for Pterophyllum altum,…

Philippines – Gonzaga, 16 November 2009 The regional Director for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Mrs. Jovita P. Ayson had suggested to Heiko Bleher to do research in the unspoiled and untouched Wangag River in Gonzaga, Peña Blanca.…

Philippines – Cagayan, 15 November 2009 Heiko was invited by BFAR (Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources), the Director Malkolm I. Sarmiento, Jr. to do research on the Philippine freshwater habitats and its fishes. Heiko started in the north-eastern part…

Iran – Strait of Hormoz region, September 2009 Heiko’s most recent field trip was to collect the monotypic and most eastern found Cichlidae in south-western Iran restricted to a few locations around the Strait of Hormoz. The area is drying…

South Western Australia, June 2009 After the 8th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Fremantle, Western Australia, Sven O. Kullander and Heiko Bleher explored the extreme south western part of Australia in search for the only neck-bending fish on Earth, and its…

Australia – South Western Region, June 2009 The Salamander fish, Lepidogalaxias salamandroides, an endemic to south western Australia – only found at a very limited area – is probably one of the most unique fishes evolved on Planet Earth -…

Greece, 24-25 April 2009 Heiko Bleher was invited to give lectures in Athens, Greece, on the weekend April 24-25. Nidal Rezeq also invited him for a short field trip. Here are some exiting photos of this research and also a…

Turkey – Asian Side, April 2009 Mustafa Kahraman of Neptun-Fora, the TROPICAL’s representative for the last 18 years, was so kind to give to Heiko Bleher a new Scoda to do his field trip in search for still not described…

UAE – Dubai, March 2009 It was impossible to come to the UAE only for Lectures & TV-interviews, Heiko Bleher had to collect the only freshwater fish species known and Natasha photograph it…     The busy city of…

India – Northeast, February 2009 During Heiko Bleher’s recent expedition to the northeast of India, together with Sanjay Kumar Das, Peter Guennel and Natasha Khardina, they researched 17 aquatic habitats throughout the region – even in remote Nagaland and found…