Jessica McCutchan

The faecal and urine samples from the bats have arrived at the lab! They passed through customs and Biosecurity, were transported to the first laboratory (Massey University) and were transferred to...

On the outskirts of Suva is a protected park called Colo-I-Suva. It has a lot of walks through the forest as well as water pools to swim in for both locals and tourists. There is a healthy sized po...

This site was a wonderful surprise. With the assistance of the provincial office staff, I was guided to a coastal site in an abandoned village turned graveyard. The large mango trees must have had ...

As well as swiftlets, Wailotua cave is home to the Fijian Blossom Bat (Notopteris macdonaldi) and is one of the few known nursery caves. The site is visited by tourists at least weekly for tours an...

I visited 3 islands off Savusavu area over 5 days. The first was an inhabited island with a resort. There is a large permanent roost here of Pacific flying foxes which is infrequently visited by gu...

For 10days Ropate has been my local fieldwork assistant and guide for Vanua Levu. After retiring from the forestry department a few years ago, he continues to be actively involved in all environmen...

Mangroves!! After walking through the bush (having to cut our way through some areas as the guide lost the path!), we made it to the beach/mudflats. From here we could visualise some active bats ab...

The best answer today - “because I don’t have enough teeth left”. I’ve spoken to more than 80 people over the past couple of days with more than 50 interviewed. The answers have been very informati...

he most easily accessible site on Taveuni is at one of the seaside resorts. The bats live in the trees around the dive shop, near the pool and over the workshed area! A very important site given th...