With an eye to the future, our fieldwork in French Polynesia ended last week with project lead Yadvinder Malhi joining us for a whirlwind tour of Moorea and Tetiaroa.
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This is not a holiday…
To borrow Rob Whittaker’s favourite saying on Oxford Geography field trips – “this is not a holiday”… despite what it looks like!
But it’s all just coconuts, isn’t it?!
We are regularly asked – ‘Why are you studying forests on Tetiaroa? It’s just all coconuts trees isn’t it?’, and it’s easy to understand why people are surprised!
Crabs & coconuts… the forests of Tetiaroa
So ends our first week monitoring forests on the stunning atoll of Tetiaroa, 3 hours boat ride from Tahiti. Hosted by the Tetiaroa Society, Heipoe and I are living and working with the Tetiaroa Society rangers, guides and other staff of The Brando hotel on Onetahi, the only inhabited motu (islet) on the atoll.
Dr Emma J McIntosh 