Conserving Kimbe Bay – what would you do if one day you realized that the side-effects of the industry you helped to introduce were starting to degrade the pristine environment of your backyard – turn a blind eye… hug a tree perhaps?

Well, if you are anything like Max and Cecilie Benjamin, you fight long and hard to protect it and establish a framework that will empower the local population to take ownership of the process.

Easier said than done, particularly in that complex equation that is Papua New Guinea…

But Mahonia Na Dari, next door to Walindi Plantation Dive Resort, is living proof that it can be done and a testament to Max and Cecilie’s sheer determination and commitment to Kimbe Bay.

I spent two weeks diving Kimbe Bay late last year and documented the experience in an article call the Coral Crucible, that was published recently in Our Way – the in-flight magazine of APNG.

I have just had the published in the same magazine that documents the efforts made to conserve the pristine environment of Kimbe Bay and you can download it on this LINK.

My follow-up article on conserving Kimbe Bay has just been published in the APNG in-flight magazine Our Way and is available for download on the link provided and if you are interested in learning more about this pristine part of Papua New Guinea check out the Complete Guide to Diving Kimbe Bay.