Temin Tui, Kaimana

I had the pleasure of a trip to Kaimana last week to help the CI team there build an Inclusive Communications and Education Strategy... we had a training with the team and CI stakeholders in the town of Kaimana, then an intensive internal CI workshop at the CI Field Station in Temin Tui... there was a lot of brain smoke, but we really got to the root of conservation issues in the region and built a comprehensive plan which, I hope*, the team will begin to implement in conjunction with their partners there.

I have been hoping to go to Kaimana and work a bit with the team there for over two years now, and am so happy to have finally had the opportunity! Of course, having been infected by stories of colleagues swimming with the whale sharks at our field station there, I was certainly hoping to get to do that in between workshop sessions, but alas, the current weather conditions mean that the sardine fishing platform where the whale sharks usually hang out has moved to seek shelter from waves, so we didn't have any whale shark time.  Hopefully next time!  But I still got to attend an World Environment Day Educational Event, and see a bit of the field, around Triton Bay, and appreciate the beauty and wonder of the area which has become a target for conservation.