A group of 20 juniors from Edina High School will be travelling to Fiji in July 2018 to take part in a conservation research expedition through the conservation group, Operation Wallacea. 

The main highlights of the students' learning experience will be:

• Spend time with local Fijian communities, learn about Fijian culture and customs and about the ecology of Pacific Islands (3 days)
• Stay at a remote forest camp in the heart of the Natewa Forest to help be involved in the creation of the first large national park in Fiji (5 days)
• Join teams discovering new species to science in the forests
• Work with scientists on land snails, butterflies and moths
• Estimate populations of endemic bird species found only in the studied forests
• Stay at the Natewa Bay Marine Research Centre. (1 week)
• Take part in a Pacific reef ecology course and explore the unsurveyed reefs.
• Gain skills in diving and dive in the previously unsurveyed largest bay in the South Pacific.

Edina HS FIJI expedition – costs

Any money raised will go towards the follow (Each is listed as cost per student):
Tuition (~$1900)  -  Students will be taking courses while in Fiji  - a true field based learning experiences. This also includes all of their lodges and meals.

Travel expenses (~$2000)  -  Flight and in-country travel expenses

Gear  (~$500) -   Students will be essentially camping out in the forests of Fiji which will require things like sleeping bags, headlamps, rucksacks etc. Students will also have the opportunity to dive to learn about marine life, which will require some gear as well.