The book tells 18 months journey took wildlife photographers Jurgen Freund and Stella Chiu Freund across the Coral Triangle, a six million kilometers square expanse of land and sea that encompasses Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste.
Head of WWF`s Coral Triangle Progamme, Dr Lida Pet-Shoede, said the goal of the Coral triangle expedition was to demonstrate the connectivity between the wildlife and peoples of the region.
" We wanted the world sit up and take notice, so we commissioned one of the world`s best wildlife photographic teams to embark on this challenging journey," she said.
The book includes over 400 stunning photographs that highlight the region`s extraordinary abundance of life like coral reefs, whales, dolphins, sharks and kaleidoscope of reef fish interspersed with essay on the Coral Triangle.
"Many places we visited in the Coral Triangle were small islands packed with people. Fishermen are everywhere we have been, and their lives as well as the lives of their wives and children are inextricably linked with the sea. The sea feeds all and the sea is under so much pressure," said Stella Freund, one of photographers in this book.
The book has been published by the WWF, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Freund Factory. (*)
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Editor: Jafar M Sidik
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