Sampling Odonata in the Pacific Islands

Abstract

"Islands in the Pacific are a frontier where many scientific hypotheses find their most stringent test." This is the leading thought of a study proposal that I am still trying to find funds for. I believe that somehow it was subconsciously embedded in my mind when back in my early childhood I was reading adventure books about the beauty and diversity of the tropical marine wildlife there. About seven years ago I made a deliberate choice to move from my home country of Bulgaria and establish an Odonata study base for myself here in New Zealand.