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New Article Published on “The Inertia”

Find my latest contribution to The Inertia at the link provided below. LINK here

By julesofthesea on November 27, 2018

Spotlights The World Beyond the Wall

Welcome to Kolombangara

I've always been an ocean girl, but the tropical rainforests of Kolombangara Island stole my heart.

By julesofthesea on September 20, 2018

Immersed in the rainforest

Disappearing into the Cloud Forest. The trees become shorter, moss and epiphytes coat the trees, and soft moss covers the ground.

Large mosses, fungi, and epiphytes erupting throughout the cloud forest

The rainforest surrounding Imbu Rano Lodge is filled with an abundance of life, including spiders and invertebrates, frogs, birds, reptiles, and more.

An eyelash frog found chirping in the bushes of the rainforest

Epiphytes climbing the trunk of a generous tree

A resident spider, feasting on the local “bees”

A tree frog searching for prey in the darkness

The beginnings of the cloud forest. Epiphytes climb the stunted trees, and sunlight pours through the canopy.

Large mosses, fungi, and epiphytes erupting throughout the cloud forest

Nearing the top with K.I.B.C.A. director Ferguson.

Dr. Patrick Pikacha on a night transect, identifying and enjoying the abundant array of frogs

Spotlights The World Beyond the Wall

Chasing Clouds

A journey from an island to an island in the sky.

By julesofthesea on August 24, 2018

A cultural heritage site of unknown age on the ridge of Kolombangara. The upper 400 meter contour of the island contains most of its cultural heritage, making it an important site not only for environmental conservation, but cultural preservation as well.

A logging truck zooms by at sea level, filled with round logs for export. Round logs – rather than milled and processed timber – is the least sustainable method of forest extraction, and is also the least lucrative for local communities.

The rainforest surrounding Imbu Rano Lodge is filled with an abundance of life, including spiders and invertebrates, frogs, birds, reptiles, and more.

An epiphyte climbs up the trunk of a generous tree.

Overlooking a turquoise landscape and sprawling trees along the volcanic ridge of Kolombangara

Nearing the top with K.I.B.C.A. director Ferguson.

Disappearing into the Cloud Forest. The trees become shorter, moss and epiphytes coat the trees, and soft moss covers the ground.

The beginnings of the cloud forest. Epiphytes climb the stunted trees, and sunlight pours through the canopy.

The soft rainforest ground, covered in moss and moisture near the upper montane forest.

Large mosses, fungi, and epiphytes erupting throughout the cloud forest

Spotlights The World Beyond the Wall

Featured: The World Beyond the Wall

There are so many things we will never know because we were afraid to understand - a featured collection of stories from overseas.

By julesofthesea on August 24, 2018

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Moments in Between

This month has been filled with an array of chaotic, crazy, wild and wonderful experiences - but abbreviated between the insanity are moments of complete calm. There may be times in life when we feel out of control or afraid - such as when a Melanesian centipede is chasing you through the rainforest at night ...

By julesofthesea on June 4, 2018

Climate & Energy Justice & Security

An Ocean of Everything

The ribbon of blue that encompasses the Earth is no longer a glowing emblem of life, but a massive deposit of all that is sick, unwanted, and deadly – the expansion of offshore drilling attests to the delusion that this can continue.

By julesofthesea on March 25, 2018