Kimbe Bay Conservation - there is a line of thought among the marine scientific community that Kimbe Bay is probably where the first corals originated – a theory that has evolved as a result of the various surveys conducted to assess and quantify the bay’s biodiversity. Do the math as they say... almost 900 species of fish, 10 species of whales and dolphins and 400+ species of stony corals. To put that in a global perspective – in an area roughly the same size as California, it is estimated that Papua New Guinea is home to almost 5% of the world’s marine biodiversity. Just under half of that fish fauna and virtually all of the …