Octavio Aburto Ambassador

Octavio Aburto, our Ambassador for the Mangrove Photography Awards, is the director of the Gulf of California Marine Program. He is also an Associate Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), a conservation photographer, and a National Geographic Explorer.
It all started when a young Octavio Aburto, moved to La Paz in the Gulf of California to study marine biology. The laboratory he worked in, put the enthusiastic scientist in charge of cameras to take photo quadrants and video transects of the pristine reefs along the coastal areas, some 30 years ago. Little by little, the explorer in the making, started to capture the seascapes, both above and below the waterline, and the animals he encountered. He would visit his mother and show her the photos of the life he saw in the oceans and coastal areas he worked in. It was during this time that he had the opportunity to visit mangrove ecosystems for the first time, and when he dived in and snorkelled, he was amazed to see the beauty and life within the roots of the red mangrove. Since then Octavio has been collecting scientific research and taking photos of mangrove forests.

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Great to see Dr Octavio and MAP together. I hope your research is going well in Mexico. Great work from MAP in Thailand. Best wishes ✌🏿