Wildlife of the Yanbaru Archives - seawildearth https://seawildearth.com/blog/category/wildlife-of-the-yanbaru/ Wildlife and Landscape Imaging Adventures Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:11:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 46886990 Protect Okinawa Wildlife https://seawildearth.com/blog/protect-okinawa-wildlife/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:06:06 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13440 For the past eight years I have devoted myself to photographing the rare and remarkable wildlife of the Yambaru jungles in northern Okinawa. Each encounter has deepened my appreciation of their fragile world and sharpened my awareness of just how precarious their survival is.

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]]> 13440 Habu Snakes of Okinawa https://seawildearth.com/blog/the-habu-snakes-of-okinawa/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:14:11 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13329 Tracking the elusive Habu Snakes of Okinawa through Yambaru's jungles, from native legends to rare encounters with the mysterious Silver Habu.

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]]> 13329 Photographing the Okinawa Rail https://seawildearth.com/blog/photographing-the-okinawa-rail/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:00:09 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13238 Photographing the Okinawa Rail has been one of the more rewarding and equally humbling challenges of my time on the island. The species—shy, elusive, and never in any rush to pose.

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]]> 13238 Japan’s Most Beautiful Frog https://seawildearth.com/blog/japans-most-beautiful-frog/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:49:35 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13186 Hidden within the subtropical forests of northern Okinawa Island, the Ishikawa’s Frog (Odorrana ishikawae) is often hailed as Japan’s most beautiful amphibian

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]]> 13186 Wild Weekends in Okinawa https://seawildearth.com/blog/wild-weekends-in-okinawa/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:46:47 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=12861 Wild weekends in Okinawa, "Yes, there will be snakes". To answer the first question that invariably gets asked when discussing the wildlife of Okinawa.

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]]> 12861 Ishikawa’s Frog, Blue Morph https://seawildearth.com/blog/ishikawas-frog-blue-morph/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 04:37:26 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=11234 Ishikawa's Frog had evaded me since my arrival in Okinawa just over four years ago. IVe constantly had this critter in my mind, hoping, waiting for the day I would get to photograph it. But it's not just Ishikawa's Frog but more so the blue morph of this ridiculously scarce amphibian.

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