Operation Wallacea, or Opwall, has been running international biodiversity research expeditions since 1995 in developing countries and has become the largest private sector provider of biodiversity field research with 560 papers published in peer reviewed journals from the intensive programmes that run for 2 months each year from June.
As a result, Opwall has built up a network of biodiversity and climate academics and field specialists who are funded through the programme as well as in-country organisations and personnel that can reliably deliver projects in remote locations. It is this network that has enabled the rapid development of mangrove reforestation projects around the world.